Commit 39e39af7 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7 



There was a change at kdoc that ended breaking compatibility
with Python 3.7: str.removesuffix() was introduced on version
3.9.

Restore backward compatibility.

Reported-by: default avatarAkira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/57be9f77-9a94-4cde-aacb-184cae111506@gmail.com/


Fixes: 27ad33b6 ("kernel-doc: Fix symbol matching for dropped suffixes")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d13058d285838ac2bc04c492e60531c013a8a919.1752218291.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
parent 7740f9db

scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py

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@@ -1120,7 +1120,9 @@ class KernelDoc: 
        # Found an export, trim out any special suffixes

        #

        for suffix in suffixes:

            symbol = symbol.removesuffix(suffix)

            # Be backward compatible with Python < 3.9

            if symbol.endswith(suffix):

                symbol = symbol[:-len(suffix)]

        function_set.add(symbol)

        return True