docs: allow selecting a Sphinx theme

Instead of having RTD as an almost mandatory theme, allow the
user to select other themes via DOCS_THEME environment var.

There's a catch, though: as the current theme override logic is
dependent of the RTD theme, we need to move the code which
adds the CSS overrides to be inside the RTD theme logic.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bd20adabfd428fd3cd0e69c2cf146aa354932936.1638870323.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Documentation/Makefile

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ endif
 SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
 SPHINXOPTS    =
 SPHINXDIRS    = .
+DOCS_THEME    =
 _SPHINXDIRS   = $(sort $(patsubst $(srctree)/Documentation/%/index.rst,%,$(wildcard $(srctree)/Documentation/*/index.rst)))
 SPHINX_CONF   = conf.py
 PAPER         =
@@ -154,4 +155,6 @@ dochelp:
 	@echo  '  make SPHINX_CONF={conf-file} [target] use *additional* sphinx-build'
 	@echo  '  configuration. This is e.g. useful to build with nit-picking config.'
 	@echo
+	@echo '   make DOCS_THEME={sphinx-theme} selects a different Sphinx theme.'
+	@echo
 	@echo  '  Default location for the generated documents is Documentation/output'

Documentation/conf.py

@@ -208,16 +208,36 @@ highlight_language = 'none'
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
 # a list of builtin themes.
 
-# The Read the Docs theme is available from
+# Default theme
-# - https://github.com/snide/sphinx_rtd_theme
+html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
-# - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx_rtd_theme
+
-# - python-sphinx-rtd-theme package (on Debian)
+if "DOCS_THEME" in os.environ:
-try:
+    html_theme = os.environ["DOCS_THEME"]
-    import sphinx_rtd_theme
+
-    html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
+if html_theme == 'sphinx_rtd_theme':
-    html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()]
+    # Read the Docs theme
-except ImportError:
+    try:
-    sys.stderr.write('Warning: The Sphinx \'sphinx_rtd_theme\' HTML theme was not found. Make sure you have the theme installed to produce pretty HTML output. Falling back to the default theme.\n')
+        import sphinx_rtd_theme
+        html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()]
+
+        # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+        # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+        # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+        html_css_files = [
+            'theme_overrides.css',
+        ]
+    except ImportError:
+        html_theme = 'classic'
+
+if major <= 1 and minor < 8:
+    html_context = {
+        'css_files': [],
+    }
+
+    for l in html_css_files:
+        html_context['css_files'].append('_static/' + l)
+
+sys.stderr.write("Using %s theme\n" % html_theme)
 
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
@@ -246,20 +266,8 @@ except ImportError:
 # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
 # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-
 html_static_path = ['sphinx-static']
 
-html_css_files = [
-    'theme_overrides.css',
-]
-
-if major <= 1 and minor < 8:
-    html_context = {
-        'css_files': [
-            '_static/theme_overrides.css',
-        ],
-    }
-
 # Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
 # .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
 # directly to the root of the documentation.

Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst

@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ To pass extra options to Sphinx, you can use the ``SPHINXOPTS`` make
 variable. For example, use ``make SPHINXOPTS=-v htmldocs`` to get more verbose
 output.
 
+By default, the build will try to use the Read the Docs sphinx theme:
+
+    https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme
+
+If the theme is not available, it will fall-back to the classic one.
+
+The Sphinx theme can be overriden by using the ``DOCS_THEME`` make variable.
+
 To remove the generated documentation, run ``make cleandocs``.
 
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