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docs: update sphinx.rst to reflect the default theme change

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We don't default to Read The Docs anymore; update the docs to match.

Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -147,11 +147,9 @@ section of ``make help``. The generated documentation is placed in
format-specific subdirectories under ``Documentation/output``.
To generate documentation, Sphinx (``sphinx-build``) must obviously be
installed. For prettier HTML output, the Read the Docs Sphinx theme
(``sphinx_rtd_theme``) is used if available. For PDF output you'll also need
``XeLaTeX`` and ``convert(1)`` from ImageMagick
(https://www.imagemagick.org).\ [#ink]_
All of these are widely available and packaged in distributions.
installed. For PDF output you'll also need ``XeLaTeX`` and ``convert(1)``
from ImageMagick (https://www.imagemagick.org).\ [#ink]_ All of these are
widely available and packaged in distributions.
To pass extra options to Sphinx, you can use the ``SPHINXOPTS`` make
variable. For example, use ``make SPHINXOPTS=-v htmldocs`` to get more verbose
@ -160,12 +158,8 @@ output.
It is also possible to pass an extra DOCS_CSS overlay file, in order to customize
the html layout, by using the ``DOCS_CSS`` make variable.
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.
By default, the "Alabaster" theme is used to build the HTML documentation;
this theme is bundled with Sphinx and need not be installed separately.
The Sphinx theme can be overridden by using the ``DOCS_THEME`` make variable.
There is another make variable ``SPHINXDIRS``, which is useful when test