[PATCH] kernel-doc: handle arrays with arithmetic expressions as initializers <was Re: [PATCH v2] kernel-doc: handle spaces in array size>

[Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:53:25PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
> 
> Unfortunately, kernel-doc has problems with a struct field like this:
> 	uint8_t databuf[NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE + NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE];
> 
> simply due to the spaces around the "+" sign, so drop all spaces inside
> [...] so that parsing is done correctly (in some sense).
> 
> Warning(linux-2.6.20-git15/include/linux/mtd/nand.h:304): No description found for parameter 'NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE]'
> 
> This needs to sit in -mm for awhile to see if it has any adverse effects.
> 
> And yes, this is just a hack until kernel-doc learns to do better
> parsing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> ---
>  scripts/kernel-doc |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc6.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc6/scripts/kernel-doc
> @@ -1452,6 +1452,11 @@ sub create_parameterlist($$$) {
>  	    $arg =~ s/\s*:\s*/:/g;
>  	    $arg =~ s/\s*\[/\[/g;
>  
> +	    # no spaces inside [array size expression];
> +	    # messes up split/pop/shift/unshift below;
> +	    while ($arg =~ s/\[(.*)\s+(.*)\]/[$1$2]/) {
> +	    }
> +
>  	    my @args = split('\s*,\s*', $arg);
>  	    if ($args[0] =~ m/\*/) {
>  		$args[0] =~ s/(\*+)\s*/ $1/;
> -

In a different approach here's a patch that handles the special case of
composite arithmetic expressions in array size initializers. With it,
prior to pushing the split strings on the @first_arg array, I split the
keywords before the array name as before and then keep the array name
along with the subscript expression as a single whole element which gets
pushed last. In this manner, kernel-doc produces correct output without
removing whitespaces which makes the array subscripts unreadable in the docs.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>

--- 21-rc6/scripts/kernel-doc.orig	2007-04-07 16:48:51.000000000 +0200
+++ 21-rc6/scripts/kernel-doc	2007-04-07 16:51:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -1456,7 +1456,16 @@ sub create_parameterlist($$$) {
 	    if ($args[0] =~ m/\*/) {
 		$args[0] =~ s/(\*+)\s*/ $1/;
 	    }
-	    my @first_arg = split('\s+', shift @args);
+
+	    my @first_arg;
+	    if ($args[0] =~ /^(.*\s+)(.*?\[.*\].*)$/) {
+		    shift @args;
+		    push(@first_arg, split('\s+', $1));
+		    push(@first_arg, $2);
+	    } else {
+		    @first_arg = split('\s+', shift @args);
+	    }
+
 	    unshift(@args, pop @first_arg);
 	    $type = join " ", @first_arg;
 

-- 
Regards/Gruß,
    Boris.