Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Some big changes this month, headlined by the addition of a new
  formatted documentation mechanism based on the Sphinx system.

  The objectives here are to make it easier to create better-integrated
  (and more attractive) documents while (eventually) dumping our
  one-of-a-kind, cobbled-together system for something that is widely
  used and maintained by others.  There's a fair amount of information
  what's being done, why, and how to use it in:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/692704/
    https://lwn.net/Articles/692705/

  Closer to home, Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst describes how
  it works.

  For now, the new system exists alongside the old one; you should soon
  see the GPU documentation converted over in the DRM pull and some
  significant media conversion work as well.  Once all the docs have
  been moved over and we're convinced that the rough edges (of which are
  are a few) have been smoothed over, the DocBook-based stuff should go
  away.

  Primary credit is to Jani Nikula for doing the heavy lifting to make
  this stuff actually work; there has also been notable effort from
  Markus Heiser, Daniel Vetter, and Mauro Carvalho Chehab.

  Expect a couple of conflicts on the new index.rst file over the course
  of the merge window; they are trivially resolvable.  That file may be
  a bit of a conflict magnet in the short term, but I don't expect that
  situation to last for any real length of time.

  Beyond that, of course, we have the usual collection of tweaks,
  updates, and typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (77 commits)
  doc-rst: kernel-doc: fix handling of address_space tags
  Revert "doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings"
  doc-rst: kernel-doc directive, fix state machine reporter
  docs: deprecate kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
  doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings
  Documentation: add watermark_scale_factor to the list of vm systcl file
  kernel-doc: Fix up warning output
  docs: Get rid of some kernel-documentation warnings
  doc-rst: add an option to ignore DocBooks when generating docs
  workqueue: Fix a typo in workqueue.txt
  Doc: ocfs: Fix typo in filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
  Documentation/sphinx: skip build if user requested specific DOCBOOKS
  Documentation: add cleanmediadocs to the documentation targets
  Add .pyc files to .gitignore
  Doc: PM: Fix a typo in intel_powerclamp.txt
  doc-rst: flat-table directive - initial implementation
  Documentation: add meta-documentation for Sphinx and kernel-doc
  Documentation: tiny typo fix in usb/gadget_multi.txt
  Documentation: fix wrong value in md.txt
  bcache: documentation formatting, edited for clarity, stripe alignment notes
  ...

30 files changed, 2653 insertions, 430 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e74fec8693b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+output
+*.pyc
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index cd077ca0e1b8..cb9a6c6fa83b 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ kbuild/
         - directory with info about the kernel build process.
 kdump/
         - directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work.
-kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
-        - mini HowTo on generation and location of kernel documentation files.
 kernel-docs.txt
         - listing of various WWW + books that document kernel internals.
+kernel-documentation.rst
+        - how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation
 kernel-parameters.txt
         - summary listing of command line / boot prompt args for the kernel.
 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 9a70ddd16584..a096836723ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ of the function, telling people what it does, and possibly WHY it does
 it.
 
 When commenting the kernel API functions, please use the kernel-doc format.
-See the files Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt and scripts/kernel-doc
+See the files Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst and scripts/kernel-doc
 for details.
 
 Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index d70f9b68174e..01bab5014a4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 # To add a new book the only step required is to add the book to the
 # list of DOCBOOKS.
 
+ifeq ($(IGNORE_DOCBOOKS),)
+
 DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml device-drivers.xml \
             kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \
             writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \
@@ -33,10 +35,6 @@ PDF_METHOD	= $(prefer-db2x)
 PS_METHOD       = $(prefer-db2x)
 
 
-###
-# The targets that may be used.
-PHONY += xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs cleandocs
-
 targets += $(DOCBOOKS)
 BOOKS := $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(DOCBOOKS))
 xmldocs: $(BOOKS)
@@ -63,6 +61,9 @@ installmandocs: mandocs
                 sort -k 2 -k 1 | uniq -f 1 | sed -e 's: :/:' | \
                 xargs install -m 644 -t /usr/local/man/man9/
 
+# no-op for the DocBook toolchain
+epubdocs:
+
 ###
 #External programs used
 KERNELDOCXMLREF = $(srctree)/scripts/kernel-doc-xml-ref
@@ -216,10 +217,24 @@ silent_gen_xml = :
                -e "s/>/\\>/g";     \
            echo "</programlisting>")  > $@
 
+else
+
+# Needed, due to cleanmediadocs
+include Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile
+
+htmldocs:
+pdfdocs:
+psdocs:
+xmldocs:
+installmandocs:
+
+endif # IGNORE_DOCBOOKS
+
+
 ###
 # Help targets as used by the top-level makefile
 dochelp:
-        @echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:'
+        @echo  ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats (DocBook):'
         @echo  '  htmldocs        - HTML'
         @echo  '  pdfdocs         - PDF'
         @echo  '  psdocs          - Postscript'
@@ -228,8 +243,11 @@ dochelp:
         @echo  '  installmandocs  - install man pages generated by mandocs'
         @echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated DocBook files'
         @echo
-        @echo  'make DOCBOOKS="s1.xml s2.xml" [target] Generate only docs s1.xml s2.xml'
+        @echo  '  make DOCBOOKS="s1.xml s2.xml" [target] Generate only docs s1.xml s2.xml'
         @echo  '  valid values for DOCBOOKS are: $(DOCBOOKS)'
+        @echo
+        @echo  "  make IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1 [target] Don't generate docs from Docbook"
+        @echo  '     This is useful to generate only the ReST docs (Sphinx)'
 
 
 ###
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d8d13c92a178
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile.sphinx
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# -*- makefile -*-
+# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+PAPER         =
+BUILDDIR      = $(obj)/output
+
+# User-friendly check for sphinx-build
+HAVE_SPHINX := $(shell if which $(SPHINXBUILD) >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
+
+ifeq ($(HAVE_SPHINX),0)
+
+.DEFAULT:
+        $(warning The '$(SPHINXBUILD)' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx installed and in PATH, or set the SPHINXBUILD make variable to point to the full path of the '$(SPHINXBUILD)' executable.)
+        @echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target."
+
+else ifneq ($(DOCBOOKS),)
+
+# Skip Sphinx build if the user explicitly requested DOCBOOKS.
+.DEFAULT:
+        @echo "  SKIP    Sphinx $@ target (DOCBOOKS specified)."
+
+else # HAVE_SPHINX
+
+# User-friendly check for rst2pdf