This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: documentation-sphinx-fix-directive-import-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From ff690eeed804f112242f9a0614eafdf559f9276a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:40:14 -0800 Subject: Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error

From: Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com

commit ff690eeed804f112242f9a0614eafdf559f9276a upstream.

Sphinx 1.7 removed sphinx.util.compat.Directive so people who have upgraded cannot build the documentation. Switch to docutils.parsers.rst.Directive which has been available since docutils 0.5 released in 2009.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694 Co-developed-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Acked-by: Jani Nikula jani.nikula@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ import glob

from docutils import nodes, statemachine from docutils.statemachine import ViewList -from docutils.parsers.rst import directives -from sphinx.util.compat import Directive +from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter

__version__ = '1.0'

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mawilcox@microsoft.com are

queue-4.14/documentation-sphinx-fix-directive-import-error.patch