docs: conf: don't rely on cwd to get documentation location

Instead of relying that Sphinx will be called from Documentation/
dir, pick the location based on __file__.

Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <34c38718dfade91ff6f7afca5e9c1705ba253c97.1768838938.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2026-01-19 17:23:06 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent d0b31c30b5
commit f123cffb00

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@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ from textwrap import dedent
import sphinx
# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("sphinx"))
# Location of Documentation/ directory
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"))
# Minimal supported version
needs_sphinx = "3.4.3"
@ -32,9 +33,6 @@ else:
# Include patterns that don't contain directory names, in glob format
include_patterns = ["**.rst"]
# Location of Documentation/ directory
kern_doc_dir = os.path.abspath(".")
# Exclude of patterns that don't contain directory names, in glob format.
exclude_patterns = []