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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2022-10-09 22:30:23 -0700
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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. title:: Kernel-doc comments
+
===========================
Writing kernel-doc comments
===========================
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst
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@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ format-specific subdirectories under ``Documentation/output``.
To generate documentation, Sphinx (``sphinx-build``) must obviously be
installed. For prettier HTML output, the Read the Docs Sphinx theme
(``sphinx_rtd_theme``) is used if available. For PDF output you'll also need
-``XeLaTeX`` and ``convert(1)`` from ImageMagick (https://www.imagemagick.org).
+``XeLaTeX`` and ``convert(1)`` from ImageMagick
+(https://www.imagemagick.org).\ [#ink]_
All of these are widely available and packaged in distributions.
To pass extra options to Sphinx, you can use the ``SPHINXOPTS`` make
@@ -150,8 +151,19 @@ If the theme is not available, it will fall-back to the classic one.
The Sphinx theme can be overridden by using the ``DOCS_THEME`` make variable.
+There is another make variable ``SPHINXDIRS``, which is useful when test
+building a subset of documentation. For example, you can build documents
+under ``Documentation/doc-guide`` by running
+``make SPHINXDIRS=doc-guide htmldocs``.
+The documentation section of ``make help`` will show you the list of
+subdirectories you can specify.
+
To remove the generated documentation, run ``make cleandocs``.
+.. [#ink] Having ``inkscape(1)`` from Inkscape (https://inkscape.org)
+ as well would improve the quality of images embedded in PDF
+ documents, especially for kernel releases 5.18 and later.
+
Writing Documentation
=====================