[PATCH v4 16/41] docs: kdoc_re: better show KernRe() at documentation
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-31 14:25:22
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Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
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> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted> --- tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index 1861799f1966..3f405addcc58 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py@@ -52,7 +52,28 @@ class KernRe: return self.regex.pattern def __repr__(self): - return f're.compile("{self.regex.pattern}")' + """ + Returns a displayable version of the class init. + """ + + flag_map = { + re.IGNORECASE: "re.I", + re.MULTILINE: "re.M", + re.DOTALL: "re.S", + re.VERBOSE: "re.X", + } + + flags = [] + for flag, name in flag_map.items(): + if self.regex.flags & flag: + flags.append(name) + + flags_name = " | ".join(flags) + + if flags_name: + return f'KernRe("{self.regex.pattern}", {flags_name})' + else: + return f'KernRe("{self.regex.pattern}")' def __add__(self, other): """
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