Re: [PATCH] Documentation: pm: fix duplicate hyperlink target errors

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Wed Oct 29 2025 - 13:01:21 EST




On 10/29/25 3:55 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 01:47:37PM +0000, Swaraj Gaikwad wrote:
>> Fix reST warnings in
>> Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst caused by missing explicit
>> hyperlink labels for section titles.
>>
>> Before this change, the following errors were printed during
>> `make htmldocs`:
>>
>> Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst:401:
>> ERROR: Indirect hyperlink target (id="id6") refers to target
>> "passive mode", which is a duplicate, and cannot be used as a
>> unique reference.
>> Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst:517:
>> ERROR: Indirect hyperlink target (id="id9") refers to target
>> "active mode", which is a duplicate, and cannot be used as a
>> unique reference.
>> Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst:611:
>> ERROR: Indirect hyperlink target (id="id15") refers to target
>> "global attributes", which is a duplicate, and cannot be used as
>> a unique reference.
>> ERROR: Duplicate target name, cannot be used as a unique reference:
>> "passive mode", "active mode", "global attributes".
>
> Hmm... I don't see these warnings when I build htmldocs by:
>
> $ make SPHINXOPTS='-j 1' htmldocs
>
> My environment uses docutils 0.21.2 and Sphinx 8.2.3, though. What are yours?


I do see the warnings and this patch fixes them in my testing.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

docutils-3.13 (Docutils 0.22.2, Python 3.13.9, on linux)
sphinx-build 8.2.3

>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
>> index 26e702c7016e..9cdd9dad6516 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
>> @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ a certain performance scaling algorithm. Which of them will be in effect
>> depends on what kernel command line options are used and on the capabilities of
>> the processor.
>>
>> +.. _Active Mode:
>> +
>> Active Mode
>> -----------
>>
>> @@ -94,6 +96,8 @@ Which of the P-state selection algorithms is used by default depends on the
>> Namely, if that option is set, the ``performance`` algorithm will be used by
>> default, and the other one will be used by default if it is not set.
>>
>> +.. _Active Mode With HWP:
>> +
>> Active Mode With HWP
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> @@ -192,6 +196,8 @@ This is the default P-state selection algorithm if the
>> :c:macro:`CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE` kernel configuration option
>> is not set.
>>
>> +.. _Passive Mode:
>> +
>> Passive Mode
>> ------------
>>
>> @@ -432,6 +438,8 @@ the ``energy_model`` directory in ``debugfs`` (typlically mounted on
>> User Space Interface in ``sysfs``
>> =================================
>>
>> +.. _Global Attributes:
>> +
>> Global Attributes
>> -----------------
>>
>>
>
> The diff LGTM, nevertheless.
>
> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks.
>



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~Randy