[PATCH 6/8] docs: maintainers_include: add external profile URLs

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Date: Wed Apr 15 2026 - 04:54:37 EST


Some subsystem profiles are maintained elsewhere. Add them to
the output.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 28 +++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
index cf428db7599c..f1b8d4b00c2a 100755
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class MaintainersParser:

def __init__(self, base_path, path):
self.profiles = {}
+ self.profile_urls = {}

result = list()
result.append(".. _maintainers:")
@@ -81,6 +82,16 @@ class MaintainersParser:
else:
self.profiles[fname] += f", {subsystem_name}"

+ match = re.match(r"P:\s*(https?://.*)", line)
+ if match:
+ url = match.group(1).strip()
+ if url not in self.profile_urls:
+ if self.profile_urls.get(url) is None:
+ self.profile_urls[url] = subsystem_name
+ else:
+ self.profile_urls[url] += f", {subsystem_name}"
+
+
# Linkify all non-wildcard refs to ReST files in Documentation/.
pat = r'(Documentation/([^\s\?\*]*)\.rst)'
m = re.search(pat, line)
@@ -219,18 +230,31 @@ class MaintainersProfile(Include):
def emit(self, base_path, path):
"""Parse all the MAINTAINERS lines looking for profile entries"""

- profiles = MaintainersParser(base_path, path).profiles
+ maint = MaintainersParser(base_path, path)

output = ".. toctree::\n"
output += " :maxdepth: 2\n\n"

- items = sorted(profiles.items(), key=lambda kv: (kv[1] or "", kv[0]))
+ items = sorted(maint.profiles.items(),
+ key=lambda kv: (kv[1] or "", kv[0]))
for fname, profile in items:
if profile:
output += f" {profile} <{fname}>\n"
else:
output += f" {fname}\n"

+ output += "\n**External profiles**\n\n"
+
+ items = sorted(maint.profile_urls.items(),
+ key=lambda kv: (kv[1] or "", kv[0]))
+ for url, profile in items:
+ if profile:
+ output += f"- {profile} <{url}>\n"
+ else:
+ output += f"- {url}\n"
+
+ output += "\n"
+
self.state_machine.insert_input(statemachine.string2lines(output), path)

def run(self):
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