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[v5,4/4] docs/sphinx: change default role to "any"

Message ID 20211102184400.1168508-5-jsnow@redhat.com
State New
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Series docs/sphinx: change default `role` to "any" | expand

Commit Message

John Snow Nov. 2, 2021, 6:44 p.m. UTC
This interprets single-backtick syntax in all of our Sphinx docs as a
cross-reference to *something*, including Python symbols.

From here on out, new uses of `backticks` will cause a build failure if
the target cannot be referenced.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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 docs/conf.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ff6e92c6e2..4d9f56601f 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ 
 # The master toctree document.
 master_doc = 'index'
 
+# Interpret `single-backticks` to be a cross-reference to any kind of
+# referenceable object. Unresolvable or ambiguous references will emit a
+# warning at build time.
+default_role = 'any'
+
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'QEMU'
 copyright = u'2021, The QEMU Project Developers'