diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 2186b6da923529f7401dc55f2f0d56ac2f871422..10886a9fb03ead2822cafc09b08c717c2cc23b84 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("./"))
 
 logger = sphinx.util.logging.getLogger("card10/conf.py")
 
+# Hawkmoth does not yet support Sphinx 3
+#
+# See https://github.com/jnikula/hawkmoth/issues/17
+if sphinx.version_info[0] > 2:
+    logger.warning(
+        "Sphinx versions >= 3 are not yet working properly with hawkmoth.  Documentation of C items will probably be broken ..."
+    )
+
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------