On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 03:41:57PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote: > > > On 12/02/18 14:53, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > 'scripts/kernel-doc -v -none > > That has a quite interesting behavior. > > I run it on genalloc.c while I am in the process of adding the brackets > to the function names in the kernel-doc description. > > The brackets confuse the script and it fails to output the name of the > function in the log: > > lib/genalloc.c:123: info: Scanning doc for get_bitmap_entry > lib/genalloc.c:139: info: Scanning doc for > lib/genalloc.c:152: info: Scanning doc for > lib/genalloc.c:164: info: Scanning doc for > > The first function does not have the brackets. > The others do. So what should I do with the missing brackets? > Add them, according to the kernel docs, or leave them out? Seems that kernel-doc does not consider () as a valid match for the identifier :) Can you please check with the below patch? > I'd lean toward adding them. > > -- > igor -- Sincerely yours, Mike. >From 35255bc2d7d2a63be4f78a7bf4eec83ab0dc4f3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:19:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function identifiers When function description includes brackets after the function name as suggested by Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc, the kernel-doc script omits the function name from "Scanning doc for" report. Extending match for identifier name with optional brackets fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc index fee8952037b1..a6a9a8ef116c 100755 --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ sub process_file($) { } elsif (/$doc_decl/o) { $identifier = $1; - if (/\s*([\w\s]+?)\s*-/) { + if (/\s*([\w\s]+?)(\(\))?\s*-/) { $identifier = $1; } -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>