Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently, the build system generates ReST files inside the > source directory. This is not a good idea, specially when > we have renames, as make clean won't get rid of them. You're right that it's not a great idea, but it's the least bad option with sphinx because it only supports 1 source dir. It doesn't have the concept of a generated-sources dir and the alternative is to pollute the output dir. See e.g. https://docs.kernel.org/media.h.rst > As the first step to address the issue, stop ignoring those > files. This way, we can see exactly what has been produced > at build time inside $(srctree): > > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/conntrack.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/devlink.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/dpll.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/ethtool.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/fou.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/handshake.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/index.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/lockd.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/mptcp_pm.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/net_shaper.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/netdev.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/nfsd.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/nftables.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/nl80211.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/nlctrl.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/ovs_datapath.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/ovs_flow.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/ovs_vport.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/rt_addr.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/rt_link.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/rt_neigh.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/rt_route.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/rt_rule.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/tc.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/tcp_metrics.rst > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/team.rst > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/.gitignore | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > delete mode 100644 Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/.gitignore > > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/.gitignore b/Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/.gitignore > deleted file mode 100644 > index 30d85567b592..000000000000 > --- a/Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/.gitignore > +++ /dev/null > @@ -1 +0,0 @@ > -*.rst