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From: Intel-wired-lan <redacted> On Behalf
Of Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 5:50 PM
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>; Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-
doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>;
bpf@vger.kernel.org; intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; linux-
kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra
[off-list ref]; Randy Dunlap [off-list ref]; Stephen
Rothwell [off-list ref]
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 09/25] docs: kdoc_parser: add
some debug for variable parsing

This is a new parser that we're still fine-tuning. Add some extra
debug messages to help addressing issues over there.

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 | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py

b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index cbfdaba39494..ccee4e0bcaab 100644

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

@@ -1033,11 +1033,19 @@ class KernelDoc:
                 declaration_name = r.group(1)

             default_val = r.group(2)
+
+            self.config.log.debug("Variable proto parser: %s from

'%s'",
+                                  r.groups(), proto)
+
         else:
             r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR +
r"(?:[\w_]*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")

             if r.match(proto):
                 default_val = r.group(1)
+
+        if default_val:
+            self.config.log.debug("default: '%s'", default_val)
+
         if not declaration_name:
            self.emit_msg(ln,f"{proto}: can't parse variable")
            return

@@ -1045,6 +1053,9 @@ class KernelDoc:
         if default_val:
             default_val = default_val.lstrip("=").strip()

+        self.config.log.debug("'%s' variable prototype: '%s',

default: %s",
+                              declaration_name, proto, default_val)
+
         self.output_declaration("var", declaration_name,
                                 full_proto=full_proto,
                                 default_val=default_val,
--
2.52.0