kernel-doc: Add unary operator * to $type_param_ref

In kernel-doc comments, unary operator * collides with Sphinx/
docutil's markdown for emphasizing.

This resulted in additional warnings from "make htmldocs":

    WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.

, as reported recently [1].

Those have been worked around either by escaping * (like \*param) or by
using inline-literal form of ``*param``, both of which are specific
to Sphinx/docutils.

Such workarounds are against the kenrel-doc's ideal and should better
be avoided.

Instead, add "*" to the list of unary operators kernel-doc recognizes
and make the form of *@param available in kernel-doc comments.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Link: [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index e8aefd258a29..d2f3fa3505c6 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ my $type_constant = '\b``([^\`]+)``\b';
 my $type_constant2 = '\%([-_\w]+)';
 my $type_func = '(\w+)\(\)';
 my $type_param = '\@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)';
-my $type_param_ref = '([\!~]?)\@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)';
+my $type_param_ref = '([\!~\*]?)\@(\w*((\.\w+)|(->\w+))*(\.\.\.)?)';
 my $type_fp_param = '\@(\w+)\(\)';  # Special RST handling for func ptr params
 my $type_fp_param2 = '\@(\w+->\S+)\(\)';  # Special RST handling for structs with func ptr params
 my $type_env = '(\$\w+)';