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+# coding=utf-8
+#
+# Copyright © 2016 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+# paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+# Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
+# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+# IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Authors:
+#    Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
+#
+# Please make sure this works on both python2 and python3.
+#
+
+import codecs
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import re
+import glob
+
+from docutils import nodes, statemachine
+from docutils.statemachine import ViewList
+from docutils.parsers.rst import directives, Directive
+from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutodocReporter
+
+__version__  = '1.0'
+
+class KernelDocDirective(Directive):
+    """Extract kernel-doc comments from the specified file"""
+    required_argument = 1
+    optional_arguments = 4
+    option_spec = {
+        'doc': directives.unchanged_required,
+        'functions': directives.unchanged,
+        'export': directives.unchanged,
+        'internal': directives.unchanged,
+    }
+    has_content = False
+
+    def run(self):
+        env = self.state.document.settings.env
+        cmd = [env.config.kerneldoc_bin, '-rst', '-enable-lineno']
+
+        filename = env.config.kerneldoc_srctree + '/' + self.arguments[0]
+        export_file_patterns = []
+
+        # Tell sphinx of the dependency
+        env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(filename))
+
+        tab_width = self.options.get('tab-width', self.state.document.settings.tab_width)
+
+        # FIXME: make this nicer and more robust against errors
+        if 'export' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-export']
+            export_file_patterns = str(self.options.get('export')).split()
+        elif 'internal' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-internal']
+            export_file_patterns = str(self.options.get('internal')).split()
+        elif 'doc' in self.options:
+            cmd += ['-function', str(self.options.get('doc'))]
+        elif 'functions' in self.options:
+            functions = self.options.get('functions').split()
+            if functions:
+                for f in functions:
+                    cmd += ['-function', f]
+            else:
+                cmd += ['-no-doc-sections']
+
+        for pattern in export_file_patterns:
+            for f in glob.glob(env.config.kerneldoc_srctree + '/' + pattern):
+                env.note_dependency(os.path.abspath(f))
+                cmd += ['-export-file', f]
+
+        cmd += [filename]
+
+        try:
+            env.app.verbose('calling kernel-doc \'%s\'' % (" ".join(cmd)))
+
+            p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+            out, err = p.communicate()
+
+            out, err = codecs.decode(out, 'utf-8'), codecs.decode(err, 'utf-8')
+
+            if p.returncode != 0:
+                sys.stderr.write(err)
+
+                env.app.warn('kernel-doc \'%s\' failed with return code %d' % (" ".join(cmd), p.returncode))
+                return [nodes.error(None, nodes.paragraph(text = "kernel-doc missing"))]
+            elif env.config.kerneldoc_verbosity > 0:
+                sys.stderr.write(err)
+
+            lines = statemachine.string2lines(out, tab_width, convert_whitespace=True)
+            result = ViewList()
+
+            lineoffset = 0;
+            line_regex = re.compile("^#define LINENO ([0-9]+)$")
+            for line in lines:
+                match = line_regex.search(line)
+                if match:
+                    # sphinx counts lines from 0
+                    lineoffset = int(match.group(1)) - 1
+                    # we must eat our comments since the upset the markup
+                else:
+                    result.append(line, filename, lineoffset)
+                    lineoffset += 1
+
+            node = nodes.section()
+            buf = self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level, self.state.memo.reporter
+            self.state.memo.reporter = AutodocReporter(result, self.state.memo.reporter)
+            self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level = [], 0
+            try:
+                self.state.nested_parse(result, 0, node, match_titles=1)
+            finally:
+                self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level, self.state.memo.reporter = buf
+
+            return node.children
+
+        except Exception as e:  # pylint: disable=W0703
+            env.app.warn('kernel-doc \'%s\' processing failed with: %s' %
+                         (" ".join(cmd), str(e)))
+            return [nodes.error(None, nodes.paragraph(text = "kernel-doc missing"))]
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_bin', None, 'env')
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_srctree', None, 'env')
+    app.add_config_value('kerneldoc_verbosity', 1, 'env')
+
+    app.add_directive('kernel-doc', KernelDocDirective)
+
+    return dict(
+        version = __version__,
+        parallel_read_safe = True,
+        parallel_write_safe = True
+    )
