Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kernel-doc: extend $type_param to match members referenced by pointer

[Markus Heiser]

Am 07.11.18 um 17:47 schrieb Mike Rapoport:
> Currently, function parameter description can match '@type.member'
> expressions but fails to match '@type->member'.
> Extend the $type_param regex to allow matching both
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   scripts/kernel-doc | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
> index 24d3550..f9f1431 100755
> --- a/scripts/kernel-doc
> +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ my $anon_struct_union = 0;
>   my $type_constant = '\b``([^\`]+)``\b';
>   my $type_constant2 = '\%([-_\w]+)';
>   my $type_func = '(\w+)\(\)';
> -my $type_param = '\@(\w*(\.\w+)*(\.\.\.)?)';
> +my $type_param = '\@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)';

Thanks, works! FWIW: added [1] this to the linuxdoc project (a kernel-doc
spinoff).  There we have a small frmaework for testing kernel-doc patches [2].
Which found a few hundert usages of '->' pointers in the whole kernel sources.

[1] https://github.com/return42/linuxdoc/commit/cce336ce0
[2] https://github.com/return42/linuxdoc/blob/master/Makefile#L95

-- Markus --