[PATCH] docs: make kernel-doc handle varargs properly

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Aug 26 2016 - 09:26:07 EST


As far as I can tell, the handling of "..." arguments has never worked
right, so any documentation provided was ignored in favor of "variable
arguments." This makes kernel-doc handle "@...:" as documented. It does
*not* fix spots in kerneldoc comments that don't follow that convention,
but they are no more broken than before.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
scripts/kernel-doc | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index c681e8f0ecc2..e6c52ab938fd 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ my $doc_com_body = '\s*\* ?';
my $doc_decl = $doc_com . '(\w+)';
# @params and a strictly limited set of supported section names
my $doc_sect = $doc_com .
- '\s*(\@\w+|description|context|returns?|notes?|examples?)\s*:(.*)';
+ '\s*(\@[.\w]+|description|context|returns?|notes?|examples?)\s*:(.*)';
my $doc_content = $doc_com_body . '(.*)';
my $doc_block = $doc_com . 'DOC:\s*(.*)?';
my $doc_inline_start = '^\s*/\*\*\s*$';
@@ -2340,6 +2340,7 @@ sub push_parameter($$$) {

if ($type eq "" && $param =~ /\.\.\.$/)
{
+ $param = "...";
if (!defined $parameterdescs{$param} || $parameterdescs{$param} eq "") {
$parameterdescs{$param} = "variable arguments";
}
--
2.7.4