kernel-doc: restrict syntax for private: and public:

scripts/kernel-doc can (incorrectly) delete struct members that are
surrounded by /* ...  */ <struct members> /* ...  */ if there is a /*
private: */ comment in there somewhere also.

Fix that by making the "/* private:" only allow whitespace between /* and
"private:", not anything/everything in the world.

This fixes some erroneous kernel-doc warnings that popped up while
processing include/linux/usb/composite.h.

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>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
index 026ec7d573840f8be024d5945addfcda73373118..4d04572b6549edef13d29a514124371b72863d10 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
@@ -269,7 +269,10 @@ Use the argument mechanism to document members or constants.
 
 Inside a struct description, you can use the "private:" and "public:"
 comment tags.  Structure fields that are inside a "private:" area
-are not listed in the generated output documentation.
+are not listed in the generated output documentation.  The "private:"
+and "public:" tags must begin immediately following a "/*" comment
+marker.  They may optionally include comments between the ":" and the
+ending "*/" marker.
 
 Example:
 
@@ -283,7 +286,7 @@ Example:
 struct my_struct {
     int a;
     int b;
-/* private: */
+/* private: internal use only */
     int c;
 };
 

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 0f11870116dc7bbce74d813928b19c36f847796c..3208a3a7e7fe5e3f9ad07a20a5bb9827d099d5ae 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1411,7 +1411,8 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
     my $file = shift;
     my $nested;
 
-    if ($x =~/(struct|union)\s+(\w+)\s*{(.*)}/) {
+    if ($x =~ /(struct|union)\s+(\w+)\s*{(.*)}/) {
+       #my $decl_type = $1;
        $declaration_name = $2;
        my $members = $3;
 
@@ -1420,8 +1421,8 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
        $nested = $1;
 
        # ignore members marked private:
-       $members =~ s/\/\*.*?private:.*?public:.*?\*\///gos;
-       $members =~ s/\/\*.*?private:.*//gos;
+       $members =~ s/\/\*\s*private:.*?\/\*\s*public:.*?\*\///gos;
+       $members =~ s/\/\*\s*private:.*//gos;
        # strip comments:
        $members =~ s/\/\*.*?\*\///gos;
        $nested =~ s/\/\*.*?\*\///gos;