Remove a redundant test and add a comment describing what the space removal
is doing.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index 96e3fe4ec431..53051ce831ba 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -545,12 +545,14 @@ class KernelDoc:
arg, declaration_name)
elif arg:
+ #
+ # Clean up extraneous spaces and split the string at commas; the first
+ # element of the resulting list will also include the type information.
+ #
arg = KernRe(r'\s*:\s*').sub(":", arg)
arg = KernRe(r'\s*\[').sub('[', arg)
-
args = KernRe(r'\s*,\s*').split(arg)
- if args[0] and '*' in args[0]:
- args[0] = re.sub(r'(\*+)\s*', r' \1', args[0])
+ args[0] = re.sub(r'(\*+)\s*', r' \1', args[0])
first_arg = []
r = KernRe(r'^(.*\s+)(.*?\[.*\].*)$')
--
2.50.1
