Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:07:27 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Make declaration type determination more robust.
> 
> When scripts/kernel-doc is deciding if some kernel-doc notation
> contains an enum, a struct, a union, a typedef, or a function,
> it does a pattern match on the beginning of the string, looking
> for a match with one of "struct", "union", "enum", or "typedef",
> and otherwise defaults to a function declaration type.
> However, if a function or a function-like macro has a name that
> begins with "struct" (e.g., struct_size()), then kernel-doc
> incorrectly decides that this is a struct declaration.
> 
> Fix this by looking for the declaration type keywords having an
> ending word boundary (\b), so that "struct_size" will not match
> a struct declaration.
> 
> I compared lots of html before/after output from core-api, driver-api,
> and networking.  There were no differences in any of the files that
> I checked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

jon