From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:41:56 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon
X-Git-Tag: v5.11-rc1~181^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://repo.jachan.dev/linux.git/commitdiff_plain/13fef8ef9fb81d338761430003726cd256e28d34

docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon

The time has come to drop support for some truly ancient versions of
sphinx; put in a warning now.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 26b54386a477..6a767294887e 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ if major >= 3:
 
 else:
     extensions.append('cdomain')
+    if major == 1 and minor < 7:
+        sys.stderr.write('WARNING: Sphinx 1.7 or greater will be required as of '
+                         'the 5.12 release\n')
 
 # Ensure that autosectionlabel will produce unique names
 autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True