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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2008-08-05 13:01:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-08-05 14:33:49 -0700
commit32ab8f97dd95592b17e684f7722caa0556087b99 (patch)
treecf6393627f7a2ef9d7f8d6844ddca0afb59aa68a /scripts
parentd2dc1f4adb4b5b02d87e49e115e5107f4da790c0 (diff)
downloadlinux-32ab8f97dd95592b17e684f7722caa0556087b99.tar.gz
kernel-doc: skip nested struct/union cleanly
Fix handling of nested structs or unions.  The regex to strip (eliminate)
nested structs or unions was limited to only 0 or 1 matches.  This can
cause an uneven number of left/right braces to be stripped, which causes
this:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc1-git2//include/net/mac80211.h:336): No description found for parameter '}'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kernel-doc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index d8f77e26081c..ff787e6ff8ed 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
 	my $members = $3;
 
 	# ignore embedded structs or unions
-	$members =~ s/{.*?}//g;
+	$members =~ s/{.*}//g;
 
 	# ignore members marked private:
 	$members =~ s/\/\*.*?private:.*?public:.*?\*\///gos;