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Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 16/25] docs: kdoc_re: better show
KernRe() at documentation

the __repr__() function is used by autodoc to document macro
initialization.

Add a better representation for them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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

b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index 1861799f1966..f082f82bad67 100644

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

@@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ class KernRe:
         return self.regex.pattern

     def __repr__(self):
-        return f're.compile("{self.regex.pattern}")'
+        if self.regex.flags:
+            return f'KernRe("{self.regex.pattern}",

{self.regex.flags})'
+        else:
+            return f'KernRe("{self.regex.pattern}")'

     def __add__(self, other):
         """
--
2.52.0