Re: [PATCH] docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx

[Federico Vaga]

On Friday, March 20, 2020 12:12:35 PM CET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The autosectionlabel extension is nice, as it allows to refer to
> a section by its name without requiring any extra tag to create
> a reference name.
> 
> However, on its default, it has two serious problems:
> 
> 1) the namespace is global. So, two files with different
>    "introduction" section would create a label with the
>    same name. This is easily solvable by forcing the extension
>    to prepend the file name with:
> 
> 	autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True
> 
> 2) It doesn't work hierarchically. So, if there are two level 1
>    sessions (let's say, one labeled "open" and another one "ioctl")
>    and both have a level 2 "synopsis" label, both section 2 will
>    have the same identical name.
> 
>    Currently, there's no way to tell Sphinx to create an
>    hierarchical reference like:
> 
> 		open / synopsis
> 		ioctl / synopsis
> 
>   This causes around 800 warnings. So, the fix should be to
>   not let autosectionlabel to produce references for anything
>   that it is not at level one, with:
> 
> 	autosectionlabel_maxdepth = 1

So, for level 1 headers is fine to use autosectionlabel, but if we want to 
refer to level 2,3... we have to create labels manually.

Fine with me