[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 03/38] docs: kdoc_parser: move var transformers to the beginning

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-18T10:13:24Z

Just like functions and structs had their transform variables
placed at the beginning, move variable transforms to there
as well.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
---
tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 23 +++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index ca00695b47b3..68a5aea9175d 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -192,6 +192,18 @@ function_xforms = [
(KernRe(r"__attribute__\s*\(\((?:[\w\s]+(?:\([^)]*\))?\s*,?)+\)\)\s+"), ""),
]

+#
+# Transforms for variable prototypes
+#
+var_xforms = [
+ (KernRe(r"__read_mostly"), ""),
+ (KernRe(r"__ro_after_init"), ""),
+ (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
+ (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
+ (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
+ (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),
+]
+
#
# Ancillary functions
#
@@ -972,15 +984,6 @@ class KernelDoc:
]
OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR = "^(?:" + "|".join(VAR_ATTRIBS) + ")?"

- sub_prefixes = [
- (KernRe(r"__read_mostly"), ""),
- (KernRe(r"__ro_after_init"), ""),
- (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
- (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
- (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
- (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),
- ]
-
#
# Store the full prototype before modifying it
#
@@ -1004,7 +1007,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
# Drop comments and macros to have a pure C prototype
#
if not declaration_name:
- for r, sub in sub_prefixes:
+ for r, sub in var_xforms:
proto = r.sub(sub, proto)

proto = proto.rstrip()
--
2.52.0