On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 07:22:08AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

Jani Nikula [off-list ref] writes:

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On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, Breno Leitao [off-list ref] wrote:

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This is a simple script that parses the Netlink YAML spec files
(Documentation/netlink/specs/), and generates RST files to be rendered
in the Network -> Netlink Specification documentation page.

First of all, my boilerplate complaint: All extra processing for Sphinx
should really be done using Sphinx extensions instead of adding Makefile
hacks. I don't think it's sustainable to keep adding this stuff. We
chose Sphinx because it is extensible, and to avoid the Rube Goldberg
machine that the previous documentation build system was.

So I feel like we've (me included) have kind of sent Breno around in
circles on this one.  This *was* implemented as an extension once:

  https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231103135622.250314-1-leitao@debian.org/ (local)

At that time it seemed too complex, and I thought that an external
script would lead to a simpler implementation overall.  Perhaps I was
wrong.

I think you are correct. I personally _think_ that the external script
is better, mainly because it is self contained, thus, easier to
maintain.