Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: better handle '::' sequences

[Jonathan Corbet]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Right now, if one of the following headers end with a '::', the
> kernel-doc script will do the wrong thing:
>
> 	description|context|returns?|notes?|examples?
>
> The real issue is with examples, as people could try to write
> something like:
>
> 	example::
>
> 		/* Some C code */
>
> and this won't be properly evaluated. So, improve the regex
> to not catch '\w+::' regex for the above identifiers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Ah....wouldn't it be nice if kerneldoc comments had just been RST from
the beginning?  I don't think we're fixing that at this point, though,
so this makes sense; applied.

Thanks,

jon