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From: Intel-wired-lan <redacted> On Behalf
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Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>;
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Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 07/25] docs: kdoc_parser: fix
variable regexes to work with size_t

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>
---
 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 64165d8df84e..201c4f7298d7 100644

--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py

@@ -1027,14 +1027,14 @@ 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