scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7

There was a change at kdoc that ended breaking compatibility
with Python 3.7: str.removesuffix() was introduced on version
3.9.

Restore backward compatibility.

Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/57be9f77-9a94-4cde-aacb-184cae111506@gmail.com/
Fixes: 27ad33b6b3 ("kernel-doc: Fix symbol matching for dropped suffixes")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d13058d285838ac2bc04c492e60531c013a8a919.1752218291.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-07-11 09:27:09 +02:00
committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 7740f9dbe2
commit 39e39af70d

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@@ -1120,7 +1120,9 @@ class KernelDoc:
# Found an export, trim out any special suffixes
#
for suffix in suffixes:
symbol = symbol.removesuffix(suffix)
# Be backward compatible with Python < 3.9
if symbol.endswith(suffix):
symbol = symbol[:-len(suffix)]
function_set.add(symbol)
return True