Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Wed,  2 Dec 2020 09:17:32 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Changeset 6b80975c6308 ("scripts: kernel-doc: fix typedef parsing")
> added support for things like:
> 
> 	typedef unsigned long foo();
> 
> However, it caused a regression on this prototype:
> 
> 	typedef bool v4l2_check_dv_timings_fnc(const struct v4l2_dv_timings *t, void *handle);
> 
> This is only noticed after adding a patch that checks if the
> kernel-doc identifier matches the typedef:
> 
> 	./scripts/kernel-doc -none $(git grep '^.. kernel-doc::' Documentation/ |cut -d ' ' -f 3|sort|uniq) 2>&1|grep expecting
> 	include/media/v4l2-dv-timings.h:38: warning: expecting prototype for typedef v4l2_check_dv_timings_fnc. Prototype was for typedef nc instead
> 
> The problem is that, with the new parsing logic, it is not
> checking for complete words at the type part.
> 
> Fix it by adding a \b at the end of each type word at the
> regex.
> 
> fixes: 6b80975c6308 ("scripts: kernel-doc: fix typedef parsing")
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

jon