[PATCH 23/38] docs: kdoc_re: add a helper class to declare C function matches
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-02-18 10:13:26
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documentation, documentation scripts, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds
Add a more convenient class to match C functions and avoiding issues at the beginning and ending of NestedMatch inits. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted> --- tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index cdc842f5fc8f..f72b80ea4f1b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py@@ -383,3 +383,14 @@ class NestedMatch: """ return f'NestedMatch("{self.regex.regex.pattern}")' + + +class CFunction(NestedMatch): + r""" + Variant of NestedMatch. + + It overrides the init method to ensure that the regular expression will + start with a ``\b`` and end with a C function delimiter (open parenthesis). + """ + def __init__(self, regex): + self.regex = KernRe(r"\b" + regex + r"\s*\(")
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