linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/12] docs: kdoc: split top-level prototype parsing out of dump

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Message-ID: <87ldo3rv42.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:10:05 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa
 <akiyks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] docs: kdoc: split top-level prototype parsing out
 of dump_struct()

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:

> Em Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:13:19 -0600
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:
>>  
>> -        struct_members = KernRe(type_pattern + r'([^{};]+)(\{)([^{}]*)(\})([^{};]*)(;)')
>> +        struct_members = KernRe(r'(struct|union)([^{};]+)(\{)([^{}]*)(\})([^{};]*)(;)')
>
> I would prefer keeping type_pattern here. 

The problem is that type_pattern no longer exists in that function.  I'd
have to redefine it, or make it global.  It seems like a rather trivial
thing to make global (and, as a result, make people go to the top of the
file to figure out what it really is).

jon