kernel-doc appeared to ignore __counted_by, but appearances can be
deceiving; it caused member names to not be recognized, which manifested as
a number of spurious "Excess struct member" warnings. Filter that
attribute out and reduce the warning onslaught slightly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
scripts/kernel-doc | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index df158c3a9abc..6acc39c56ac3 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1143,6 +1143,7 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
# strip attributes
$members =~ s/\s*$attribute/ /gi;
$members =~ s/\s*__aligned\s*\([^;]*\)/ /gos;
+ $members =~ s/\s*__counted_by\s*\([^;]*\)/ /gos;
$members =~ s/\s*__packed\s*/ /gos;
$members =~ s/\s*CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR/ /gos;
$members =~ s/\s*____cacheline_aligned_in_smp/ /gos;
--
2.43.0
