[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 07/38] docs: kdoc_parser: fix variable regexes to work with size_t
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
mchehab+huawei at kernel.org
Wed Feb 18 10:12:37 UTC 2026
The regular expressions meant to pick variable types are too
naive: they forgot that the type word may contain underlines.
Co-developed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov at intel.com>
---
tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index b704755d2f0a..b63d91b7f79e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -1028,14 +1028,14 @@ class KernelDoc:
default_val = None
- r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"\w.*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
+ r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"[\w_]*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
if r.match(proto):
if not declaration_name:
declaration_name = r.group(1)
default_val = r.group(2)
else:
- r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"(?:\w.*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
+ r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR + r"(?:[\w_]*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
if r.match(proto):
default_val = r.group(1)
--
2.52.0
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