docs: kdoc: remove the KernelEntry::descr pseudo member

The entry.descr value used in process_name() is not actually a member of
the KernelEntry class; it is a bit of local state.  So just manage it
locally.

A trim_whitespace() helper was added to clean up the code slightly.

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606163438.229916-7-corbet@lwn.net

diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index dffa3055adc16b64e9c6c642643a24c8c43c713b..2d8a046499c7507e5a4503a4d7dcd61ee59554a0 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ export_symbol_ns = KernRe(r'^\s*EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(_GPL)?\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*,\s*"\S+"
 
 type_param = KernRe(r"\@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)", cache=False)
 
+#
+# A little helper to get rid of excess white space
+#
+multi_space = KernRe(r'\s\s+')
+def trim_whitespace(s):
+    return multi_space.sub(' ', s.strip())
+
 class state:
     """
     State machine enums
@@ -1266,12 +1273,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
 
             r = KernRe("[-:](.*)")
             if r.search(line):
-                # strip leading/trailing/multiple spaces
-                self.entry.descr = r.group(1).strip(" ")
-
-                r = KernRe(r"\s+")
-                self.entry.descr = r.sub(" ", self.entry.descr)
-                self.entry.declaration_purpose = self.entry.descr
+                self.entry.declaration_purpose = trim_whitespace(r.group(1))
                 self.state = state.BODY_MAYBE
             else:
                 self.entry.declaration_purpose = ""