Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] Documentation: Add ABI to the admin guide

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:08:43 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> That's the third attempt to add support for the Kernel ABI
> at the Documentation's admin guide.
> 
> The first approach was based on a generic extension that
> calls a random script. This one is based on a new Sphinx
> extension with adds a symbol specific for parsing ABI
> symbols.
> 
> It adds a new script (scripts/get_abi.pl) with can either
> search for ABI symbols that match a regular expression or
> outputs the entire documentation found inside a directory
> as a ReST book.
> 
> Adding the ABI description to the Linux documentation is
> as easy as adding a tab like:
> 
> 	.. kernel-abi:: $srctree/Documentation/ABI/obsolete
> 
> On version 3, I improved the script to better parse the
> ABI descriptions. On this version, it will identify if the
> description can be handled as a normal text. If so, it will
> escape characters that has special meaning on Sphinx.
> If it detects that the description syntax is too complex,
> it outputs inside a literal block.
> 
> Also on version 3, I opted to use 4 separate sections, one
> for each type of symbol. It also add an entry with the name
> of each ABI file, with has cross-references to the symbols
> defined on each file.
> 
> The parser was also improved to handle any content at the
> files that are before the ABI tags.

The HTML formatted result can be seen at:
	http://www.infradead.org/~mchehab/kernel_docs/admin-guide/abi.html

And the PDF formatted result at (pages 151 to 565):
	http://www.infradead.org/~mchehab/kernel_docs_pdf/linux-user.pdf

Thanks,
Mauro