The patch titled scripts/kernel-doc: escape special characters for xml struct output has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-kernel-doc-escape-special-characters-for-xml-struct-output.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: scripts/kernel-doc: escape special characters for xml struct output From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> scripts/kernel-doc was leaving unescaped '<', '>', and '&' in generated xml output for structs. This causes xml parser errors. Convert these characters to "<", ">", and "&" as needed to prevent errors. Most of the conversion was already done; complete it just before output. Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.xml:41883: parser error : StartTag: invalid element name #define INPUT_KEYMAP_BY_INDEX (1 << 0) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kernel-doc | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/kernel-doc~scripts-kernel-doc-escape-special-characters-for-xml-struct-output scripts/kernel-doc --- a/scripts/kernel-doc~scripts-kernel-doc-escape-special-characters-for-xml-struct-output +++ a/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use strict; ## Copyright (c) 1998 Michael Zucchi, All Rights Reserved ## ## Copyright (C) 2000, 1 Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> ## ## Copyright (C) 2001 Simon Huggins ## -## Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Randy Dunlap ## +## Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Randy Dunlap ## ## ## ## #define enhancements by Armin Kuster <akuster@xxxxxxxxxx> ## ## Copyright (c) 2000 MontaVista Software, Inc. ## @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ sub output_highlight { if ($output_mode eq "html" || $output_mode eq "xml") { $contents = local_unescape($contents); # convert data read & converted thru xml_escape() into &xyz; format: - $contents =~ s/\\\\\\/&/g; + $contents =~ s/\\\\\\/\&/g; } # print STDERR "contents b4:$contents\n"; eval $dohighlight; @@ -770,7 +770,11 @@ sub output_struct_xml(%) { print $args{'type'} . " " . $args{'struct'} . " {\n"; foreach $parameter (@{$args{'parameterlist'}}) { if ($parameter =~ /^#/) { - print "$parameter\n"; + my $prm = $parameter; + # convert data read & converted thru xml_escape() into &xyz; format: + # This allows us to have #define macros interspersed in a struct. + $prm =~ s/\\\\\\/\&/g; + print "$prm\n"; next; } @@ -1701,6 +1705,8 @@ sub push_parameter($$$) { } } + $param = xml_escape($param); + # strip spaces from $param so that it is one continous string # on @parameterlist; # this fixes a problem where check_sections() cannot find _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch scripts-kernel-doc-escape-special-characters-for-xml-struct-output.patch linux-next.patch backlight-fix-88pm860x_bl-macro-collision.patch ibm_rtl-fix-printk-format-warning.patch leds-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module-add-missing-header-file.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html