Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 10:25:38 +0200
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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        Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Make PDF builds work again
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 05:46:25PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> I've just spent rather more time than I would like figuring out why the PDF
> builds fail and what was needed to fix it.  The result is the following
> patch series.  It's a combination of little mistakes and fragility in the
> whole PDF build tool chain.
> 
> Mauro, Daniel: Do you want the last two?  Or otherwise give me acks?  I'd
> like to send the set Linusward forthwith so that 4.12 can come out with
> a working PDF build.

Only now stumbled over the full thread, but the drm patch is already
queued up for at least 4.13 (Dave was out and all that). I guess we could
try to cherry-pick through stable.

Personally I don't care at all for PDF builds, the only thing we do in our
autobuilder is html, same for me locally when building docs. That tends to
keep working :-)

Also, 0-day only tests the htmlbuild. Maybe you want to ping Fu and ask
him to add the pdfdocs to his build targets?
-Daniel

> 
> In general, I'm dismayed by the fragility of the whole thing.  I'm also a
> little concerned that nobody except Jim complained about the problem.
> Perhaps nobody really cares about PDF output anymore?  In the absence of a
> concerted effort on somebody's part, I predict that PDF building will be
> broken much of the time.  I have to wonder if it's worth it...
> 
> Jonathan Corbet (5):
>   Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package
>   Docs: Remove redundant geometry package inclusion
>   Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst
>   Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst
>   DRM: Fix an incorrectly formatted table
> 
>  Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst                  | 10 ++--
>  Documentation/conf.py                              |  3 +-
>  .../media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.rst          |  4 +-
>  include/drm/bridge/dw_hdmi.h                       | 70 +++++++++++-----------
>  4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.13.1
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch