scripts/kernel-doc: Adding cross-reference links to html documentation.

Functions, Structs and Parameters definitions on kernel documentation
are pure cosmetic, it only highlights the element.

To ease the navigation in the documentation we should use <links> inside
those tags so readers can easily jump between methods directly.

This was discussed in 2014[1] and is implemented by getting a list
of <refentries> from the DocBook XML to generate a database. Then it looks
for <function>,<structnames> and <paramdef> tags that matches the ones in
the database. As it only links existent references, no broken links are
added.

[1] - lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-August/065404.html

Signed-off-by: Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <danilo.cesar@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula
2015-07-28 16:45:15 -03:00
committet von Jonathan Corbet
Ursprung 9ed71e7ad9
Commit 5699f871d2
2 geänderte Dateien mit 228 neuen und 13 gelöschten Zeilen

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@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ installmandocs: mandocs
###
#External programs used
KERNELDOC = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc
DOCPROC = $(objtree)/scripts/docproc
KERNELDOCXMLREF = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc-xml-ref
KERNELDOC = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc
DOCPROC = $(objtree)/scripts/docproc
XMLTOFLAGS = -m $(srctree)/$(src)/stylesheet.xsl
XMLTOFLAGS += --skip-validation
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ define rule_docproc
) > $(dir $@).$(notdir $@).cmd
endef
%.xml: %.tmpl $(KERNELDOC) $(DOCPROC) FORCE
%.xml: %.tmpl $(KERNELDOC) $(DOCPROC) $(KERNELDOCXMLREF) FORCE
$(call if_changed_rule,docproc)
# Tell kbuild to always build the programs
@@ -142,7 +143,20 @@ quiet_cmd_db2html = HTML $@
echo '<a HREF="$(patsubst %.html,%,$(notdir $@))/index.html"> \
$(patsubst %.html,%,$(notdir $@))</a><p>' > $@
%.html: %.xml
###
# Rules to create an aux XML and .db, and use them to re-process the DocBook XML
# to fill internal hyperlinks
gen_aux_xml = :
quiet_gen_aux_xml = echo ' XMLREF $@'
silent_gen_aux_xml = :
%.aux.xml: %.xml
@$($(quiet)gen_aux_xml)
@rm -rf $@
@(cat $< | egrep "^<refentry id" | egrep -o "\".*\"" | cut -f 2 -d \" > $<.db)
@$(KERNELDOCXMLREF) -db $<.db $< > $@
.PRECIOUS: %.aux.xml
%.html: %.aux.xml
@(which xmlto > /dev/null 2>&1) || \
(echo "*** You need to install xmlto ***"; \
exit 1)
@@ -211,15 +225,18 @@ dochelp:
###
# Temporary files left by various tools
clean-files := $(DOCBOOKS) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.dvi, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.aux, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.tex, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.log, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.out, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.ps, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.pdf, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.html, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.dvi, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.aux, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.tex, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.log, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.out, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.ps, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.pdf, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.html, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.aux.xml, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.xml.db, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(patsubst %.xml, %.xml, $(DOCBOOKS)) \
$(index)
clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS)) man