[PATCH v4 28/41] docs: kdoc_re: prevent adding whitespaces on sub replacements
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
When NestedMatch is used, blank whitespaces may be placed after substitutions. As such spaces are part of the C syntax, we can safelly drop them, improving the quality of the output. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> --- tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index 294051dbc050..886e33ffd2b9 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py@@ -341,8 +341,12 @@ class NestedMatch: cur_pos = 0 n = 0 + l = len(line) for start, end, pos in self._search(line): + while cur_pos < l and line[cur_pos] == ' ': + cur_pos += 1 + out += line[cur_pos:start] # Value, ignoring start/end delimiters
@@ -365,7 +369,9 @@ class NestedMatch: break # Append the remaining string - l = len(line) + while cur_pos < l and line[cur_pos] == ' ': + cur_pos += 1 + out += line[cur_pos:l] return out
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