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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-04 11:01:18 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-04 11:01:18 +0200
commitedc2988c548db05e33b921fed15821010bc74895 (patch)
treeb35860428acea35e5866d4cf007519ed943a85de /Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
parentlocking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests (diff)
parentMerge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to fix up conflicts
Conflicts: mm/page_alloc.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
index d15e07f36881..39aa9e8697cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
# Please make sure this works on both python2 and python3.
#
+import codecs
import os
import subprocess
import sys
@@ -88,13 +89,10 @@ class KernelDocDirective(Directive):
try:
env.app.verbose('calling kernel-doc \'%s\'' % (" ".join(cmd)))
- p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
+ p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = p.communicate()
- # python2 needs conversion to unicode.
- # python3 with universal_newlines=True returns strings.
- if sys.version_info.major < 3:
- out, err = unicode(out, 'utf-8'), unicode(err, 'utf-8')
+ out, err = codecs.decode(out, 'utf-8'), codecs.decode(err, 'utf-8')
if p.returncode != 0:
sys.stderr.write(err)