Re: [PATCH] Revert "Revert "doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings""

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Aug 09 2016 - 10:07:54 EST


On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:56:15 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > So I honestly think we should just set the highlight language to "none" by
> > default. The syntax highlighting in code samples adds some colorful sugar
> > to the docs, but it's not really all that useful, IMO, and people who want
> > it can override the language in the right places.
> >
> > Any strong opposition to this idea?
>
> Hm right, didn't realize that this is where it's coming from. No
> strong opinion from my side on highlighting the C block quotes really.
> Otoh that highlighting is rather pretty. Could we perhaps just shut
> sphinx up about the "C" highlighting issues?

We can look into that, but, in the end, we'll always have a lot of literal
blocks that are not C code. Even if Sphinx doesn't warn about them, it
tries to mark them up as C with occasionally strange results. I'm not
really convinced it's a net win.

jon