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From: Intel-wired-lan <redacted> On Behalf
Of Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>;
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Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3 29/30] docs: kdoc_re: don't
remove the trailing "; " with NestedMatch

Removing it causes the parse to break some conversions, when
NestedMatch is used on macros like __attribute__().

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

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

b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index a49b42e3d189..294051dbc050 100644

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

@@ -358,10 +358,6 @@ class NestedMatch:

             out += new_sub

-            # Drop end ';' if any
-            if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';':
-                pos += 1
-
             cur_pos = pos
             n += 1

--

2.52.0