docs: kdoc: some final touches for process_name()

Add some comments to process_name() to cover its broad phases of operation,
and slightly restructure the if/then/else structure to remove some early
returns.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-10-corbet@lwn.net
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Jonathan Corbet
2025-06-06 10:34:38 -06:00
parent 0682bde2c7
commit 8666a352dc

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@@ -1227,7 +1227,9 @@ class KernelDoc:
"""
STATE_NAME: Looking for the "name - description" line
"""
#
# Check for a DOC: block and handle them specially.
#
if doc_block.search(line):
self.entry.new_start_line = ln
@@ -1238,9 +1240,10 @@ class KernelDoc:
self.entry.identifier = self.entry.section
self.state = state.DOCBLOCK
return
if doc_decl.search(line):
#
# Otherwise we're looking for a normal kerneldoc declaration line.
#
elif doc_decl.search(line):
self.entry.identifier = doc_decl.group(1)
# Test for data declaration
@@ -1261,15 +1264,19 @@ class KernelDoc:
f"This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst\n{line}")
self.state = state.NORMAL
return
self.entry.identifier = self.entry.identifier.strip(" ")
#
# OK, set up for a new kerneldoc entry.
#
self.state = state.BODY
self.entry.identifier = self.entry.identifier.strip(" ")
# if there's no @param blocks need to set up default section here
self.entry.section = SECTION_DEFAULT
self.entry.new_start_line = ln + 1
#
# Find the description portion, which *should* be there but
# isn't always.
# (We should be able to capture this from the previous parsing - someday)
#
r = KernRe("[-:](.*)")
if r.search(line):
self.entry.declaration_purpose = trim_whitespace(r.group(1))
@@ -1290,11 +1297,11 @@ class KernelDoc:
self.emit_msg(ln,
f"Scanning doc for {self.entry.decl_type} {self.entry.identifier}",
warning=False)
return
#
# Failed to find an identifier. Emit a warning
self.emit_msg(ln, f"Cannot find identifier on line:\n{line}")
#
else:
self.emit_msg(ln, f"Cannot find identifier on line:\n{line}")
def process_body(self, ln, line):
"""