linux-kernel - Re: Please backport commit 00d95fcc4dee ("docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString()") to v6.17.y

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Message-Id: <DDS2XJZB0ECJ.N4LNABSIJHAJ@mailbox.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 08:36:00 +0100
From: "Andreas Radke" <andreas.radke@...lbox.org>
To: "Salvatore Bonaccorso" <carnil@...ian.org>, "stable"
 <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Sasha Levin"
 <sashal@...nel.org>, "Zhixu Liu" <zhixu.liu@...il.com>, "Jonathan Corbet"
 <corbet@....net>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please backport commit 00d95fcc4dee ("docs: kdoc: handle the
 obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString()") to v6.17.y

For kernel 6.12 there's just one more place required to add the fix:

--- a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py        2025-10-23 16:20:48.000000000 +0200
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py.new    2025-10-26 08:08:33.168985951 +0100
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@
 from docutils import nodes, statemachine
 from docutils.statemachine import ViewList
 from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive
-from docutils.utils.error_reporting import ErrorString
 from sphinx.util.docutils import switch_source_input

+def ErrorString(exc):  # Shamelessly stolen from docutils
+    return f'{exc.__class__.__name}: {exc}'
+
 __version__  = '1.0'

 def setup(app):


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