> -----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 07/25] docs: kdoc_parser: fix
> variable regexes to work with size_t
>
> The regular expressions meant to pick variable types are too
> naive: they forgot that the type word may contain underlines.
>
> Co-developed-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> 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 | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> index 64165d8df84e..201c4f7298d7 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> +++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
> @@ -1027,14 +1027,14 @@ class KernelDoc:
>
> default_val = None
>
> - r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR +
> r"\w.*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
> + r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR +
> r"[\w_]*\s+(?:\*+)?([\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
> if r.match(proto):
> if not declaration_name:
> declaration_name = r.group(1)
>
> default_val = r.group(2)
> else:
> - r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR +
> r"(?:\w.*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
> + r= KernRe(OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR +
> r"(?:[\w_]*)?\s+(?:\*+)?(?:[\w_]+)\s*[\d\]\[]*\s*(=.*)?")
> if r.match(proto):
> default_val = r.group(1)
>
> --
> 2.52.0
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <[email protected]>
