Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Document the Netlink spec

Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:27:28 -0700 Jonathan Corbet wrote:

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I do have to wonder, though, whether a sphinx extension is the right way
to solve this problem.  You're essentially implementing a filter that
turns one YAML file into one RST file; might it be better to keep that
outside of sphinx as a standalone script, invoked by the Makefile?

If we're considering other ways of generating the files - I'd also like
to voice a weak preference towards removing the need for the "stub"
files.

Get all the docs rendered under Documentation/netlink/ with an
auto-generated index.

FWIW the index could use a toctree glob pattern like we do in
Documentation/bpf/maps.rst then it wouldn't need to be auto-generated.

This way newcomers won't have to remember to add a stub to get the doc
rendered. One fewer thing to worry about during review.