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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile.sphinx2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/conf.py29
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
index 8a662be9bd87..addf32309bc3 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ PAPEROPT_a4 = -D latex_paper_size=a4
PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
KERNELDOC = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc
KERNELDOC_CONF = -D kerneldoc_srctree=$(srctree) -D kerneldoc_bin=$(KERNELDOC)
-ALLSPHINXOPTS = -d $(BUILDDIR)/.doctrees $(KERNELDOC_CONF) $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) -c $(srctree)/$(src) $(SPHINXOPTS) $(srctree)/$(src)
+ALLSPHINXOPTS = -D version=$(KERNELVERSION) -D release=$(KERNELRELEASE) -d $(BUILDDIR)/.doctrees $(KERNELDOC_CONF) $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) -c $(srctree)/$(src) $(SPHINXOPTS) $(srctree)/$(src)
# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
I18NSPHINXOPTS = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 8b72577f38f5..6cc41a0555a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -60,10 +60,31 @@ author = 'The kernel development community'
# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
# built documents.
#
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = '4.5'
-# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '4.5'
+# In a normal build, version and release are are set to KERNELVERSION and
+# KERNELRELEASE, respectively, from the Makefile via Sphinx command line
+# arguments.
+#
+# The following code tries to extract the information by reading the Makefile,
+# when Sphinx is run directly (e.g. by Read the Docs).
+try:
+ makefile_version = None
+ makefile_patchlevel = None
+ for line in open('../Makefile'):
+ key, val = [x.strip() for x in line.split('=', 2)]
+ if key == 'VERSION':
+ makefile_version = val
+ elif key == 'PATCHLEVEL':
+ makefile_patchlevel = val
+ if makefile_version and makefile_patchlevel:
+ break
+except:
+ pass
+finally:
+ if makefile_version and makefile_patchlevel:
+ version = release = makefile_version + '.' + makefile_patchlevel
+ else:
+ sys.stderr.write('Warning: Could not extract kernel version\n')
+ version = release = "unknown version"
# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
# for a list of supported languages.