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+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+
+project = 'Linux Media Subsystem Documentation'
+
+# It is possible to run Sphinx in nickpick mode with:
+nitpicky = True
+
+# within nit-picking build, do not refer to any intersphinx object
+intersphinx_mapping = {}
+
+# In nickpick mode, it will complain about lots of missing references that
+#
+# 1) are just typedefs like: bool, __u32, etc;
+# 2) It will complain for things like: enum, NULL;
+# 3) It will complain for symbols that should be on different
+#    books (but currently aren't ported to ReST)
+#
+# The list below has a list of such symbols to be ignored in nitpick mode
+#
+nitpick_ignore = [
+    ("c:func", "clock_gettime"),
+    ("c:func", "close"),
+    ("c:func", "container_of"),
+    ("c:func", "determine_valid_ioctls"),
+    ("c:func", "ERR_PTR"),
+    ("c:func", "ioctl"),
+    ("c:func", "IS_ERR"),
+    ("c:func", "mmap"),
+    ("c:func", "open"),
+    ("c:func", "pci_name"),
+    ("c:func", "poll"),
+    ("c:func", "PTR_ERR"),
+    ("c:func", "read"),
+    ("c:func", "release"),
+    ("c:func", "set"),
+    ("c:func", "struct fd_set"),
+    ("c:func", "struct pollfd"),
+    ("c:func", "usb_make_path"),
+    ("c:func", "write"),
+    ("c:type", "atomic_t"),
+    ("c:type", "bool"),
+    ("c:type", "buf_queue"),
+    ("c:type", "device"),
+    ("c:type", "device_driver"),
+    ("c:type", "device_node"),
+    ("c:type", "enum"),
+    ("c:type", "file"),
+    ("c:type", "i2c_adapter"),
+    ("c:type", "i2c_board_info"),
+    ("c:type", "i2c_client"),
+    ("c:type", "ktime_t"),
+    ("c:type", "led_classdev_flash"),
+    ("c:type", "list_head"),
+    ("c:type", "lock_class_key"),
+    ("c:type", "module"),
+    ("c:type", "mutex"),
+    ("c:type", "pci_dev"),
+    ("c:type", "pdvbdev"),
+    ("c:type", "poll_table_struct"),
+    ("c:type", "s32"),
+    ("c:type", "s64"),
+    ("c:type", "sd"),
+    ("c:type", "spi_board_info"),
+    ("c:type", "spi_device"),
+    ("c:type", "spi_master"),
+    ("c:type", "struct fb_fix_screeninfo"),
+    ("c:type", "struct pollfd"),
+    ("c:type", "struct timeval"),
+    ("c:type", "struct video_capability"),
+    ("c:type", "u16"),
+    ("c:type", "u32"),
+    ("c:type", "u64"),
+    ("c:type", "u8"),
+    ("c:type", "union"),
+    ("c:type", "usb_device"),
+
+    ("cpp:type", "boolean"),
+    ("cpp:type", "fd"),
+    ("cpp:type", "fd_set"),
+    ("cpp:type", "int16_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "NULL"),
+    ("cpp:type", "off_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "pollfd"),
+    ("cpp:type", "size_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "ssize_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "timeval"),
+    ("cpp:type", "__u16"),
+    ("cpp:type", "__u32"),
+    ("cpp:type", "__u64"),
+    ("cpp:type", "uint16_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "uint32_t"),
+    ("cpp:type", "video_system_t"),
+]