Re: [PATCH hyperv-next v6 01/17] Documentation: hyperv: Confidential VMBus

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 03:11:35PM -0700, Roman Kisel wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/7/2025 4:56 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 01:38:02PM -0700, Roman Kisel wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 10/6/2025 7:23 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 03:26:54PM -0700, Roman Kisel wrote:
> > > > > +The data is transferred directly between the VM and a vPCI device (a.k.a.
> > > > > +a PCI pass-thru device, see :doc:`vpci`) that is directly assigned to VTL2
> > > > > +and that supports encrypted memory. In such a case, neither the host partition
> > > > 
> > > > Nit: You can also write the cross-reference simply as vpci.rst.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for helping out! I could not find that way of cross-referencing
> > > in the Sphinx documentation though:
> > > https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/referencing.html#cross-referencing-documents
> > 
> > That's kernel-specific extension (see Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst).
> > 
> 
> Thanks, got it! So far, in my experience, that doesn't work for PDFs.
> 
> > > 
> > > I tried it out anyway. The suggestion worked out only for the HTML
> > > documentation, and would not work for the PDF one. Options attempted:
> > > 
> > > 1. vpci
> > > 2. vpci.rst
> > > 3. Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci
> > > 4. Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst
> > > 
> > > and neither would produce a hyperlink inside virt.pdf. Options 2 & 4
> > > generated a hyperlink in HTML.
> > 
> > That's it.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> I found in the document you referred to ("1.3.4 Cross-referencing") that
> 
> "Cross-referencing from one documentation page to another can be done
> simply by writing the path to the document file, no special syntax
> required."
> 
> From the document, that relies on some additional processing within the
> kernel tree (above you mentioned that, too), and that doesn't seem to
> work for PDFs. I'll stick to the :doc: syntax then used in the patch.
> I'll investigate separately why the additional processing that allows to
> simplify syntax works for HTMLs only.

OK, thanks!

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