docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx

The autosectionlabel extension is nice, as it allows to refer to
a section by its name without requiring any extra tag to create
a reference name.

However, on its default, it has two serious problems:

1) the namespace is global. So, two files with different
   "introduction" section would create a label with the
   same name. This is easily solvable by forcing the extension
   to prepend the file name with:

	autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True

2) It doesn't work hierarchically. So, if there are two level 1
   sessions (let's say, one labeled "open" and another one "ioctl")
   and both have a level 2 "synopsis" label, both section 2 will
   have the same identical name.

   Currently, there's no way to tell Sphinx to create an
   hierarchical reference like:

		open / synopsis
		ioctl / synopsis

  This causes around 800 warnings. So, the fix should be to
  not let autosectionlabel to produce references for anything
  that it is not at a chapter level within any doc, with:

	autosectionlabel_maxdepth = 2

Fixes: 58ad30cf91f0 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/74f4d8d91c648d7101c45b4b99cc93532f4dadc6.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index fa2bfcd6df1d..9ae8e9abf846 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ extensions = ['kerneldoc', 'rstFlatTable', 'kernel_include', 'cdomain',
               'kfigure', 'sphinx.ext.ifconfig', 'automarkup',
               'maintainers_include', 'sphinx.ext.autosectionlabel' ]
 
+# Ensure that autosectionlabel will produce unique names
+autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True
+autosectionlabel_maxdepth = 2
+
 # The name of the math extension changed on Sphinx 1.4
 if (major == 1 and minor > 3) or (major > 1):
     extensions.append("sphinx.ext.imgmath")