docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon
The time has come to drop support for some truly ancient versions of
sphinx; put in a warning now.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 26b5438..6a76729 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@
else:
extensions.append('cdomain')
+ if major == 1 and minor < 7:
+ sys.stderr.write('WARNING: Sphinx 1.7 or greater will be required as of '
+ 'the 5.12 release\n')
# Ensure that autosectionlabel will produce unique names
autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True