docs: kdoc: backslashectomy in kdoc_parser

A lot of the regular expressions in this file have extraneous backslashes
that may have been needed in Perl, but aren't helpful here.  Take them out
to reduce slightly the visual noise.

Escaping of (){}[] has been left in place, even when unnecessary, for
visual clarity.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250807211639.47286-4-corbet@lwn.net

diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index aa6d11bf29b19b29f84e08339b329df20cfc96b7..14ded23f11e01df860138376f5bc06464a232223 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ doc_decl = doc_com + KernRe(r'(\w+)', cache=False)
 known_section_names = 'description|context|returns?|notes?|examples?'
 known_sections = KernRe(known_section_names, flags = re.I)
 doc_sect = doc_com + \
-    KernRe(r'\s*(\@[.\w]+|\@\.\.\.|' + known_section_names + r')\s*:([^:].*)?$',
+    KernRe(r'\s*(@[.\w]+|@\.\.\.|' + known_section_names + r')\s*:([^:].*)?$',
            flags=re.I, cache=False)
 
 doc_content = doc_com_body + KernRe(r'(.*)', cache=False)
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ attribute = KernRe(r"__attribute__\s*\(\([a-z0-9,_\*\s\(\)]*\)\)",
 export_symbol = KernRe(r'^\s*EXPORT_SYMBOL(_GPL)?\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*\)\s*', cache=False)
 export_symbol_ns = KernRe(r'^\s*EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(_GPL)?\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*,\s*"\S+"\)\s*', cache=False)
 
-type_param = KernRe(r"\@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)", cache=False)
+type_param = KernRe(r"@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)", cache=False)
 
 #
 # Tests for the beginning of a kerneldoc block in its various forms.
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
 
         for arg in args.split(splitter):
             # Strip comments
-            arg = KernRe(r'\/\*.*\*\/').sub('', arg)
+            arg = KernRe(r'/\*.*\*/').sub('', arg)
 
             # Ignore argument attributes
             arg = KernRe(r'\sPOS0?\s').sub(' ', arg)
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
 
                 arg = arg.replace('#', ',')
 
-                r = KernRe(r'[^\(]+\(\*?\s*([\w\[\]\.]*)\s*\)')
+                r = KernRe(r'[^\(]+\(\*?\s*([\w\[\].]*)\s*\)')
                 if r.match(arg):
                     param = r.group(1)
                 else:
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
                 # Array-of-pointers
 
                 arg = arg.replace('#', ',')
-                r = KernRe(r'[^\(]+\(\s*\*\s*([\w\[\]\.]*?)\s*(\s*\[\s*[\w]+\s*\]\s*)*\)')
+                r = KernRe(r'[^\(]+\(\s*\*\s*([\w\[\].]*?)\s*(\s*\[\s*[\w]+\s*\]\s*)*\)')
                 if r.match(arg):
                     param = r.group(1)
                 else:
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
                         if not arg:
                             continue
 
-                        r = KernRe(r'^([^\(]+\(\*?\s*)([\w\.]*)(\s*\).*)')
+                        r = KernRe(r'^([^\(]+\(\*?\s*)([\w.]*)(\s*\).*)')
                         if r.match(arg):
                             # Pointer-to-function
                             dtype = r.group(1)
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
         Stores a typedef inside self.entries array.
         """
 
-        typedef_type = r'((?:\s+[\w\*]+\b){0,7}\s+(?:\w+\b|\*+))\s*'
+        typedef_type = r'((?:\s+[\w*]+\b){0,7}\s+(?:\w+\b|\*+))\s*'
         typedef_ident = r'\*?\s*(\w\S+)\s*'
         typedef_args = r'\s*\((.*)\);'
 
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
             self.dump_section()
 
             # Look for doc_com + <text> + doc_end:
-            r = KernRe(r'\s*\*\s*[a-zA-Z_0-9:\.]+\*/')
+            r = KernRe(r'\s*\*\s*[a-zA-Z_0-9:.]+\*/')
             if r.match(line):
                 self.emit_msg(ln, f"suspicious ending line: {line}")
 
@@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
         """Ancillary routine to process a function prototype"""
 
         # strip C99-style comments to end of line
-        line = KernRe(r"\/\/.*$", re.S).sub('', line)
+        line = KernRe(r"//.*$", re.S).sub('', line)
         #
         # Soak up the line's worth of prototype text, stopping at { or ; if present.
         #