tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message

Besides the parameters that are passed via command line arguments,
the wrapper's behavior is affected by several environment variables.

Document that. While here, use __doc__ for its description.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <e0ccee75f7e7fb499e0f59d5b84469f4b6a21627.1769500383.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2026-01-27 09:03:34 +01:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent b09cc1ddde
commit 64e4882c82

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@ -814,20 +814,42 @@ def jobs_type(value):
except ValueError:
raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f"Must be 'auto' or positive integer, got {value}") # pylint: disable=W0707
EPILOG="""
Besides the command line arguments, several environment variables affect its
default behavior, meant to be used when called via Kernel Makefile:
- KERNELVERSION: Kernel major version
- KERNELRELEASE: Kernel release
- KBUILD_VERBOSE: Contains the value of "make V=[0|1] variable.
When V=0 (KBUILD_VERBOSE=0), sets verbose level to "-q".
- SPHINXBUILD: Documentation build tool (default: "sphinx-build").
- SPHINXOPTS: Extra options pased to SPHINXBUILD
(default: "-j auto" and "-q" if KBUILD_VERBOSE=0).
The "-v" flag can be used to increase verbosity.
If V=0, the first "-v" will drop "-q".
- PYTHON3: Python command to run SPHINXBUILD
- PDFLATEX: LaTeX PDF engine. (default: "xelatex")
- LATEXOPTS: Optional set of command line arguments to the LaTeX engine
- srctree: Location of the Kernel root directory (default: ".").
"""
def main():
"""
Main function. The only mandatory argument is the target. If not
specified, the other arguments will use default values if not
specified at os.environ.
"""
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Kernel documentation builder")
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter,
description=__doc__,
epilog=EPILOG)
parser.add_argument("target", choices=list(TARGETS.keys()),
help="Documentation target to build")
parser.add_argument("--sphinxdirs", nargs="+",
help="Specific directories to build")
parser.add_argument("--builddir", default="output",
help="Sphinx configuration file")
help="Sphinx configuration file (default: %(default)s)")
parser.add_argument("--theme", help="Sphinx theme to use")
@ -843,7 +865,7 @@ def main():
help="place build in verbose mode")
parser.add_argument('-j', '--jobs', type=jobs_type,
help="Sets number of jobs to use with sphinx-build")
help="Sets number of jobs to use with sphinx-build(default: auto)")
parser.add_argument('-i', '--interactive', action='store_true',
help="Change latex default to run in interactive mode")