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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>2025-09-05 16:46:08 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2025-09-09 13:37:16 -0600
commitf2c2f6490085e29521f87d5464b2cdceff0f0c7a (patch)
tree72263bec92d8af4dabd1551d15822552e9089076
parent4b6fba464322f5850dbcce32f3a25eeebf64e770 (diff)
docs: add tools/docs/gen-redirects.py
Add a new script and a new documentation 'make' target, htmldocs-redirects. This will generate HTML stub files in the HTML documentation output directory that redirect the browser to the new path. Suggested-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20250905144608.577449-4-vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile4
-rw-r--r--Makefile5
-rwxr-xr-xtools/docs/gen-redirects.py54
3 files changed, 61 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 5c20c68be89a..3609cb86137b 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ htmldocs:
@$(srctree)/scripts/sphinx-pre-install --version-check
@+$(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS),$(call loop_cmd,sphinx,html,$(var),,$(var)))
+htmldocs-redirects: $(srctree)/Documentation/.renames.txt
+ @tools/docs/gen-redirects.py --output $(BUILDDIR) < $<
+
# If Rust support is available and .config exists, add rustdoc generated contents.
# If there are any, the errors from this make rustdoc will be displayed but
# won't stop the execution of htmldocs
@@ -175,6 +178,7 @@ cleandocs:
dochelp:
@echo ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats from ReST:'
@echo ' htmldocs - HTML'
+ @echo ' htmldocs-redirects - generate HTML redirects for moved pages'
@echo ' texinfodocs - Texinfo'
@echo ' infodocs - Info'
@echo ' latexdocs - LaTeX'
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6bfe776bf3c5..d764afe3a30a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1799,8 +1799,9 @@ $(help-board-dirs): help-%:
# Documentation targets
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs htmldocs epubdocs cleandocs \
- linkcheckdocs dochelp refcheckdocs texinfodocs infodocs
+DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs htmldocs htmldocs-redirects \
+ epubdocs cleandocs linkcheckdocs dochelp refcheckdocs \
+ texinfodocs infodocs
PHONY += $(DOC_TARGETS)
$(DOC_TARGETS):
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation $@
diff --git a/tools/docs/gen-redirects.py b/tools/docs/gen-redirects.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..6a6ebf6f42dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/docs/gen-redirects.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# Copyright © 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+# Author: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
+
+"""Generate HTML redirects for renamed Documentation/**.rst files using
+the output of tools/docs/gen-renames.py.
+
+Example:
+
+ tools/docs/gen-redirects.py --output Documentation/output/ < Documentation/.renames.txt
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import sys
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', help='output directory')
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+for line in sys.stdin:
+ line = line.rstrip('\n')
+
+ old_name, new_name = line.split(' ', 2)
+
+ old_html_path = os.path.join(args.output, old_name + '.html')
+ new_html_path = os.path.join(args.output, new_name + '.html')
+
+ if not os.path.exists(new_html_path):
+ print(f"warning: target does not exist: {new_html_path} (redirect from {old_html_path})")
+ continue
+
+ old_html_dir = os.path.dirname(old_html_path)
+ if not os.path.exists(old_html_dir):
+ os.makedirs(old_html_dir)
+
+ relpath = os.path.relpath(new_name, os.path.dirname(old_name)) + '.html'
+
+ with open(old_html_path, 'w') as f:
+ print(f"""\
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <title>This page has moved</title>
+ <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url={relpath}">
+</head>
+<body>
+<p>This page has moved to <a href="{relpath}">{new_name}</a>.</p>
+</body>
+</html>""", file=f)