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.

It also means that we need to change the regex which detects
var attributes to handle "const".

Co-developed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <8230715239929cf9d475ab81ca1df7de65d82d06.1772469446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-03-02 17:40:48 +01:00
committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent cca1bbdd72
commit 4fd349f03d

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@@ -981,8 +981,9 @@ class KernelDoc:
"""
VAR_ATTRIBS = [
"extern",
"const",
]
OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR = "^(?:" + "|".join(VAR_ATTRIBS) + ")?"
OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR = r"^(?:\b(?:" +"|".join(VAR_ATTRIBS) +r")\b\s*)*"
#
# Store the full prototype before modifying it
@@ -1018,14 +1019,14 @@ 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)