Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: add support for handling global variables

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:50:57 -0800
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> escreveu:

> The v2 patch certainly is better with the new regexes to ignore.
> I have a few minor changes that I would like to add (in a trivial patch below).

See my comments below.

> And there are still a few cases that are not handled correctly.
> (see my kdoc-globals-test.patch from 9/9/2025)

Where is it?


> Also, changing to "var" instead of "global" is good IMO.

I'll send a v3 with the rename in a few.

> ---
>  scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_output.py |    2 +-
>  scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- linux-next-20251114.orig/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_output.py
> +++ linux-next-20251114/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_output.py
> @@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ class ManFormat(OutputFormat):
>          self.data += f"{prototype} \\- {args['purpose']}\n"
>  
>          self.data += ".SH SYNOPSIS\n"
> -        self.data += f"enum {name}" + " {\n"
> +        self.data += f"{prototype}" + ";\n"

This one should probably be a separate patch from you after the
patch, as it is related to enum, and not var tag.

>  
>          if args.other_stuff["default_val"]:
>              self.data += f'.SH "Initialization"' + "\n"
> --- linux-next-20251114.orig/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> +++ linux-next-20251114/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> @@ -939,6 +939,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
>              (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
>              (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
>              (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
> +            (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),

Makes sense. I'll add it to the v3.

My suggestion is that, once I sent v3, you pick it at the beginning
on your series and then add your changes on separate patches
after that, including the one using "{prototype}" for enum.


Thanks,
Mauro