docs: reconfigure the HTML left column

Use the html_sidebars directive to get a more useful set of links in the
left column.

Unfortunately, this is a no-op with the default RTD theme, but others
observe it.

Reviewed-by: David Vernet <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index cdcc8e0f46a6..c45a3b7f7717 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ html_static_path = ['sphinx-static']
 html_use_smartypants = False
 
 # Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
-#html_sidebars = {}
+# Note that the RTD theme ignores this.
+html_sidebars = { '**': ['searchbox.html', 'localtoc.html', 'sourcelink.html']}
 
 # Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
 # template names.