linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 14/27] scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: get rid of false-positives

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:08:59 -0300
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: [PATCH v3 14/27] scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: get rid of false-positives

Now that the number of broken refs are smaller, improve the logic
that gets rid of false-positives.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
---
 scripts/documentation-file-ref-check | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
index d132f756d31d..047f463cdf4b 100755
--- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
+++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
@@ -38,16 +38,31 @@ while (<IN>) {
 	my $f = $1;
 	my $ln = $2;
 
-	# Makefiles contain nasty expressions to parse docs
-	next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/);
+	# Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs
+	next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/);
+
 	# Skip this script
 	next if ($f eq $scriptname);
 
-	if ($ln =~ m,\b(\S*)(Documentation/[A-Za-z0-9\_\.\,\~/\*\[\]\?+-]*),) {
+	if ($ln =~ m,\b(\S*)(Documentation/[A-Za-z0-9\_\.\,\~/\*\[\]\?+-]*)(.*),) {
 		my $prefix = $1;
 		my $ref = $2;
 		my $base = $2;
+		my $extra = $3;
 
+		# some file references are like:
+		# /usr/src/linux/Documentation/DMA-{API,mapping}.txt
+		# For now, ignore them
+		next if ($extra =~ m/^{/);
+
+		# Remove footnotes at the end like:
+		# Documentation/devicetree/dt-object-internal.txt[1]
+		$ref =~ s/(txt|rst)\[\d+]$/$1/;
+
+		# Remove ending ']' without any '['
+		$ref =~ s/\].*// if (!($ref =~ m/\[/));
+
+		# Remove puntuation marks at the end
 		$ref =~ s/[\,\.]+$//;
 
 		my $fulref = "$prefix$ref";
-- 
2.17.1