From c13ce448c8532965eb4e1115e78cb5b8ff8261a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 15:25:41 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: set version and release properly

Read the version and release from the top level Makefile (for use when
Sphinx is invoked directly, by e.g. Read the Docs), but override them
via Sphinx command line arguments in a normal documentation build.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/Makefile.sphinx |  2 +-
 Documentation/conf.py         | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 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.
-- 
2.20.1