Re: [PATCH] docs: kdoc_parser: allow __exit in function prototypes

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

On Thu,  5 Feb 2026 22:54:40 -0800
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> Handle functions that are marked with __exit to prevent warnings:
> 
> Documentation/networking/iucv:35: ../net/iucv/iucv.c:1918: WARNING: Error in declarator or parameters
> Invalid C declaration: Expecting "(" in parameters. [error at 12]
>   void __exit iucv_exit (void)
>   ------------^
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> ---
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> 
>  tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- linux-next-20260204.orig/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> +++ linux-next-20260204/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ function_xforms  = [
>      (KernRe(r"^__FORTIFY_INLINE +"), ""),
>      (KernRe(r"__init +"), ""),
>      (KernRe(r"__init_or_module +"), ""),
> +    (KernRe(r"__exit +"), ""),
>      (KernRe(r"__deprecated +"), ""),
>      (KernRe(r"__flatten +"), ""),
>      (KernRe(r"__meminit +"), ""),



Thanks,
Mauro