From: Borislav Petkov In a different approach here's a patch that handles the special case of composite arithmetic expressions in array size initializers. With it, prior to pushing the split strings on the @first_arg array, I split the keywords before the array name as before and then keep the array name along with the subscript expression as a single whole element which gets pushed last. In this manner, kernel-doc produces correct output without removing whitespaces which makes the array subscripts unreadable in the docs. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- scripts/kernel-doc | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/kernel-doc~kernel-doc-handle-arrays-with-arithmetic-expressions-as scripts/kernel-doc --- a/scripts/kernel-doc~kernel-doc-handle-arrays-with-arithmetic-expressions-as +++ a/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -1456,7 +1456,16 @@ sub create_parameterlist($$$) { if ($args[0] =~ m/\*/) { $args[0] =~ s/(\*+)\s*/ $1/; } - my @first_arg = split('\s+', shift @args); + + my @first_arg; + if ($args[0] =~ /^(.*\s+)(.*?\[.*\].*)$/) { + shift @args; + push(@first_arg, split('\s+', $1)); + push(@first_arg, $2); + } else { + @first_arg = split('\s+', shift @args); + } + unshift(@args, pop @first_arg); $type = join " ", @first_arg; _