Re: [PATCH] bpf_doc: Fix build error with older python versions

[Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>]

2023-01-06 12:40 UTC+0100 ~ Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
> + make -j48 -s -C /dev/shm/kbuild/linux.33946/current ARCH=powerpc HOSTCC=gcc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64-suse-linux- clean
> TypeError: '_sre.SRE_Match' object is not subscriptable
> 
> Fixes: 8a76145a2ec2 ("bpf: explicitly define BPF_FUNC_xxx integer values")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
> ---
>  scripts/bpf_doc.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/bpf_doc.py b/scripts/bpf_doc.py
> index e8d90829f23e..38d51e05c7a2 100755
> --- a/scripts/bpf_doc.py
> +++ b/scripts/bpf_doc.py
> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ class HeaderParser(object):
>              if capture:
>                  fn_defines_str += self.line
>                  helper_name = capture.expand(r'bpf_\1')
> -                self.helper_enum_vals[helper_name] = int(capture[2])
> +                self.helper_enum_vals[helper_name] = int(capture.group(2))
>                  self.helper_enum_pos[helper_name] = i
>                  i += 1
>              else:

Thanks, the change looks good.

Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

Would be nice to have a bit more context in the commit log: As I
understand, Match objects have been scriptable since Python 3.6 (2016).

Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#re