Re: [PATCH] docs: escape ** glob pattern in MAINTAINERS descriptions

[Jonathan Corbet]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 4/9/26 3:31 PM, Matteo Croce wrote:
>> From: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@xxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Escape '**' in the MAINTAINERS descriptions section to prevent
>> reStructuredText from interpreting it as bold/strong inline markup,
>> which causes a warning when running 'make htmldocs'.
>> 
>> Fixes: 420849332f9f ("get_maintainer: add ** glob pattern support")
>> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
>> index 519ad18685b2..54f34f47c9ee 100755
>> --- a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
>> +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
>> @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ class MaintainersInclude(Include):
>>              output = None
>>              if descriptions:
>>                  # Escape the escapes in preformatted text.
>> -                output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\"))
>> +                output = "| %s" % (line.replace("\\", "\\\\")
>> +                                        .replace("**", "\\**"))
>>                  # Look for and record field letter to field name mappings:
>>                  #   R: Designated *reviewer*: FullName <address@domain>
>>                  m = re.search(r"\s(\S):\s", line)
>
> It's nice to eliminate one warning from 'make htmldocs', so this is good
> in that regard. However, there are still multiple problems (not Warnings)
> with '*' characters in the MAINTAINERS file:

I've mentioned this before but done nothing about it ... I really wonder
about the value of bringing in the MAINTAINERS file in the first place.
Do we think that anybody is reading it in the rendered docs?

jon