From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 22:49:58 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~107^2~18
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=00fa9bc4e93cb336575a5f2c1da90d2443ff14c8;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()

By the time we get here, comments have long since been stripped out; there
is no need to do it again.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---

diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 7c739b495d58..ad9df0536bbf 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -1034,9 +1034,6 @@ class KernelDoc:
         typedef1 = KernRe(r'typedef' + typedef_type + r'\(' + typedef_ident + r'\)' + typedef_args)
         typedef2 = KernRe(r'typedef' + typedef_type + typedef_ident + typedef_args)
 
-        # Strip comments
-        proto = KernRe(r'/\*.*?\*/', flags=re.S).sub('', proto)
-
         # Parse function typedef prototypes
         for r in [typedef1, typedef2]:
             if not r.match(proto):