This interprets single-backtick syntax in all of our Sphinx docs as a
cross-reference to *something*, including Python symbols.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
 docs/conf.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index e584f683938..bbc71ebdc36 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
 # The master toctree document.
 master_doc = 'index'
 
+# Interpret `this` to be a cross-reference to "anything".
+default_role = 'any'
+
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'QEMU'
 copyright = u'2020, The QEMU Project Developers'
-- 
2.26.2