> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <[email protected]> On Behalf
> Of Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 5:50 PM
> To: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>; Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-
> [email protected]>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]; [email protected]; Peter Zijlstra
> <[email protected]>; Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>; Stephen
> Rothwell <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 03/25] docs: kdoc_parser: move
> var transformers to the beginning
>
> Just like functions and structs had their transform variables placed
> at the beginning, move variable transforms to there as well.
>
> No functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> ---
> tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 23 +++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> index fd57944ae907..0b68b140cd02 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> +++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> @@ -191,6 +191,18 @@ function_xforms = [
>
> (KernRe(r"__attribute__\s*\(\((?:[\w\s]+(?:\([^)]*\))?\s*,?)+\)\)\s+")
> , ""), ]
>
> +#
> +# Transforms for variable prototypes
> +#
> +var_xforms = [
> + (KernRe(r"__read_mostly"), ""),
> + (KernRe(r"__ro_after_init"), ""),
> + (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
> + (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
> + (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
> + (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),
> +]
> +
> #
> # Ancillary functions
> #
> @@ -971,15 +983,6 @@ class KernelDoc:
> ]
> OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR = "^(?:" + "|".join(VAR_ATTRIBS) + ")?"
>
> - sub_prefixes = [
> - (KernRe(r"__read_mostly"), ""),
> - (KernRe(r"__ro_after_init"), ""),
> - (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
> - (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
> - (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
> - (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),
> - ]
> -
> #
> # Store the full prototype before modifying it
> #
> @@ -1003,7 +1006,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
> # Drop comments and macros to have a pure C prototype
> #
> if not declaration_name:
> - for r, sub in sub_prefixes:
> + for r, sub in var_xforms:
> proto = r.sub(sub, proto)
>
> proto = proto.rstrip()
> --
> 2.52.0
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <[email protected]>
