The patch below does not apply to the 4.16-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:40:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error
Sphinx 1.7 removed sphinx.util.compat.Directive so people who have upgraded cannot build the documentation. Switch to docutils.parsers.rst.Directive which has been available since docutils 0.5 released in 2009.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083694 Co-developed-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Acked-by: Jani Nikula jani.nikula@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py index 39aa9e8697cc..fbedcc39460b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ import glob
from docutils import nodes, statemachine from docutils.statemachine import ViewList -from docutils.parsers.rst import directives -from sphinx.util.compat import Directive +from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter
__version__ = '1.0'