Ming Wen <mwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Dear Linux Doc’ers: > > Nice to e-meet you! And thanks for your great contribution to Linux > Kernel world as always. 😊 To begin with, please do not send HTML mail, it won't make it through to the lists. > We’re now working on LTS Kernel 5.15 and 6.1. Recently, we’re trying > to build their Sphinx Doc. These are, of course, quite old kernels. > It is required to go with Sphinx 2.4.4, which is much lower than the > version(8.1.3) of ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04. Required by who? That is an ancient version of Sphinx at this point. > PS: if going with very new version of Sphinx like 8.1.3, the final > output is not right(doesn’t have the proper decoration). Current Sphinx works fine, as far as I know; are there specific problems that you can report with current kernels? > To try to resolve this, we followed below way to build kernel Sphinx > Doc by having Sphinx to stay with 2.4.4. However, it will require > extra dependency packages(highlighted below in yellow) before we can > build the doc properly. > > Here, we’d like to check with your comments for whether it will be > good to merge it into the main branch for Kernel 5.15 and 6.1. If not, > do you have any concern on this? Or you have other better > options/advices for us to try? Thanks again for your time. Again, those are very old kernels, that you are trying to make work with a very old version of Sphinx. I'm not sure why those patches would be useful to anybody else? > This email and attachments contain Ambarella Proprietary and/or Confidential > Information and is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is > addressed. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribute, copy, or print is > prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email > and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. This, too, is not appropriate to send within our development community. Thanks, jon
