doc-rst: generic way to build only sphinx sub-folders

Add a generic way to build only a reST sub-folder with or
without a individual *build-theme*.

* control *sub-folders* by environment SPHINXDIRS
* control *build-theme* by environment SPHINX_CONF

Folders with a conf.py file, matching $(srctree)/Documentation/*/conf.py
can be build and distributed *stand-alone*. E.g. to compile only the
html of 'media' and 'gpu' folder use::

  make SPHINXDIRS="media gpu" htmldocs

To use an additional sphinx-build configuration (*build-theme*) set the
name of the configuration file to SPHINX_CONF. E.g. to compile only the
html of 'media' with the *nit-picking* build use::

  make SPHINXDIRS=media SPHINX_CONF=conf_nitpick.py htmldocs

With this, the Documentation/conf.py is read first and updated with the
configuration values from the Documentation/media/conf_nitpick.py.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 827dafc515b1..43e41ed74584 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import os
 # 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'))
+from load_config import loadConfig
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -421,3 +422,9 @@ pdf_documents = [
 # line arguments.
 kerneldoc_bin = '../scripts/kernel-doc'
 kerneldoc_srctree = '..'
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Since loadConfig overwrites settings from the global namespace, it has to be
+# the last statement in the conf.py file
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+loadConfig(globals())