docs: enable Sphinx autodoc extension to allow documenting python

Adding python documentation is simple with Sphinx: all we need
is to include the ext.autodoc extension and add the directories
where the Python code sits at the sys.path.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <29cbe375dc418d6fa5793f55199799b5b52dcd38.1768838938.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2026-01-19 17:23:07 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent f123cffb00
commit 6a4931a7fe

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@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ kern_doc_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
# Add location of Sphinx extensions
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(kern_doc_dir, "sphinx"))
# Allow sphinx.ext.autodoc to document files at tools and scripts
sys.path.append(os.path.join(kern_doc_dir, "..", "tools"))
sys.path.append(os.path.join(kern_doc_dir, "..", "scripts"))
# Minimal supported version
needs_sphinx = "3.4.3"
@ -152,6 +156,7 @@ extensions = [
"maintainers_include",
"parser_yaml",
"rstFlatTable",
"sphinx.ext.autodoc",
"sphinx.ext.autosectionlabel",
"sphinx.ext.ifconfig",
"translations",