On 06/02/2024 23:53, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Vegard Nossum vegard.nossum@oracle.com writes:
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class KernelFeat(Directive): else: out_lines += line + "\n"
nodeList = self.nestedParse(out_lines, fname)
nodeList = self.nestedParse(out_lines, self.arguments[0]) return nodeListSo I can certainly track this through to 6.8, but I feel like I'm missing something:
- If we have never seen a ".. FILE" line, then (as the changelog notes) no files were found to extract feature information from. In that case, why make the self.nestedParse() call at all? Why not just return rather than making a useless call with a random name?
What am I overlooking?
Even if we skip the call in the error/empty case, we still need to pass a sensible value here in the other cases -- this value is the file that will be attributed by Sphinx if there is e.g. a reST syntax error in any of the feature files. 'fname' here is basically the last file that happened to be read by get_feat.pl, which is more misleading than self.arguments[0] IMHO.
So basically: Yes, we could skip the call entirely, but we'd still want to make the above change as well; skipping it doesn't change that.
Maybe we should just change it to doc.current_source directly -- my rationale for splitting it up into two patches was that we would have one patch bringing it sort of back to where we were before (having it at least not error out and still be the obvious/minimal fix that can get backported to stable) and then a patch actually improving on that (the next patch in the series).
Does that make sense?
Vegard