linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping

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Message-ID: <20250814154035.328769-8-corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:40:35 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping

By the time stuff gets to create_parameter_list(), comments have long since
been stripped out, so we do not need to do it again here.

Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
---
 scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 998b1ece932a..a560546c1867 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -493,9 +493,6 @@ class KernelDoc:
             args = arg_expr.sub(r"\1#", args)
 
         for arg in args.split(splitter):
-            # Strip comments
-            arg = KernRe(r'/\*.*\*/').sub('', arg)
-
             # Ignore argument attributes
             arg = KernRe(r'\sPOS0?\s').sub(' ', arg)
 
-- 
2.50.1