tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: only generate rust docs when requested

When the user explicitly specifies SPHINXDIRS to build a specific
subdirectory it is unexpected that the rust docs are also generated.
Especially as their generation may dominate the execution time.

Only generate the rust docs when they are part of the SPHINXDIRS
requested by the user. 'rust/rustdocs' is not considered, as it is
not a valid SPHINXDIRS anyways.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260118-docs-spurious-rust-v1-4-998e14b9ed9e@weissschuh.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
index 04eb300dab4a..78ff7ac202ef 100755
--- a/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
+++ b/tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper
@@ -119,12 +119,15 @@ class SphinxBuilder:
 
         return path
 
-    def check_rust(self):
+    def check_rust(self, sphinxdirs):
         """
         Checks if Rust is enabled
         """
         config = os.path.join(self.srctree, ".config")
 
+        if not {'.', 'rust'}.intersection(sphinxdirs):
+            return False
+
         if not os.path.isfile(config):
             return False
 
@@ -691,7 +694,7 @@ class SphinxBuilder:
 
             args.extend(["-D", f"latex_elements.papersize={paper}paper"])
 
-        rustdoc = self.check_rust()
+        rustdoc = self.check_rust(sphinxdirs_list)
         if rustdoc:
             args.extend(["-t", "rustdoc"])