kernel-doc: skip nested struct/union cleanly

Fix handling of nested structs or unions.  The regex to strip (eliminate)
nested structs or unions was limited to only 0 or 1 matches.  This can
cause an uneven number of left/right braces to be stripped, which causes
this:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc1-git2//include/net/mac80211.h:336): No description found for parameter '}'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index d8f77e26081c230a3bc489f5c773950cab3b10d3..ff787e6ff8edcbef0edc7fbfaef7f3d088f930a0 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
        my $members = $3;
 
        # ignore embedded structs or unions
-       $members =~ s/{.*?}//g;
+       $members =~ s/{.*}//g;
 
        # ignore members marked private:
        $members =~ s/\/\*.*?private:.*?public:.*?\*\///gos;