From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:40:35 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping
X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d8125e27323d8a378cb38f88a6c5a0d7fdb2f6c;p=users%2Fhch%2Fmisc.git

docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping

By the time stuff gets to create_parameter_list(), comments have long since
been stripped out, so we do not need to do it again here.

Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814154035.328769-8-corbet@lwn.net
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diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 998b1ece932a..a560546c1867 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -493,9 +493,6 @@ class KernelDoc:
             args = arg_expr.sub(r"\1#", args)
 
         for arg in args.split(splitter):
-            # Strip comments
-            arg = KernRe(r'/\*.*\*/').sub('', arg)
-
             # Ignore argument attributes
             arg = KernRe(r'\sPOS0?\s').sub(' ', arg)