From nobody Thu Apr 9 17:59:24 2026 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD2423EBF3A; Fri, 6 Mar 2026 15:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772811959; cv=none; b=rbVIQQwoM0thMhw5hTBDGvg7En2gQ74l8UWRbC9nZIO+FTZN+CmQaJ5k2dys68hk7uWUbbMijwEHLVuUAExtDU/GzyndRkig9DU4ctctz9WOOlxzHzmclXtfBJQK5thecKAlqmEJaEXyyt+1WSsT3dHERDUp5GFgX1NyGZuPyVk= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1772811959; c=relaxed/simple; bh=7COCcajjMpNCqEJgxqFWGc78MkIQYZ67DzkUU7rjqRQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=a2DsSNMtmOyd0SEJXxNE7gLeQSoRzbbDlMFeKiW17oPQEj7mf6/bMs1Oq28GKC1XrIAxosI9YVZeA/0kYm+FnH/NrqVMQQ2HdDO3xbVWW8okVtU4gUiEPYYC53lzICvi5uYY4JoHqXvg0U7pTf/zCdjVdOaLkJTXfcLDPzBLuVI= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=IOhL2ByE; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="IOhL2ByE" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EBB6C2BC86; Fri, 6 Mar 2026 15:45:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1772811959; bh=7COCcajjMpNCqEJgxqFWGc78MkIQYZ67DzkUU7rjqRQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=IOhL2ByEDIFS0CnFrHKGZFuEBlNYkixExxWTKmB+DsgpqtPFJP63Qpt/r3YEjzNUp LNgnreZ7FAtmLbuqzqlIWcG2PE2V7/5+mCcj8U1kBjiawAAkC3GXEGYXp3+cMUkeBR GP1iO1ZWtJopXrMR7s/u+6Nr/0pbzNz46tSw0RddIWMjKqB3CL6oKJ85YtKzSHpoLk gW6xty15axxJ1IEZaZOXgB6HqB8nXuAaD7J+uYmOyfuRWiKpdRllk3Kc8B/guwb7Ca Q9NJOtFq41G1nA5VoAuL4+xmgKZgVUYlY7xY2UmD6O0gDAZdJbOkALn9186ywxgMg1 1WW0FLEj5ncSQ== Received: from mchehab by mail.kernel.org with local (Exim 4.99.1) (envelope-from ) id 1vyXNF-00000007EhU-3p6I; Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:45:57 +0100 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Jonathan Corbet , Linux Doc Mailing List Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 10/13] docs: kdoc_output: Change the logic to handle man highlight Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 16:45:48 +0100 Message-ID: <6ae2301a40b3fcb4381dd9dda8c75d14f9616b46.1772810752.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: Mauro Carvalho Chehab The code inside ManFormat code to output man pages is too simple: it produces very bad results when the content has tables or code blocks. Change the way lines are parsed there to allow adding extra logic to handle some special cases. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py | 26 +++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/k= doc_output.py index c25f80a39cdc..9caffe0d9753 100644 --- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py +++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_output.py @@ -755,15 +755,23 @@ class ManFormat(OutputFormat): if isinstance(contents, list): contents =3D "\n".join(contents) =20 - for line in contents.strip("\n").split("\n"): - line =3D KernRe(r"^\s*").sub("", line) - if not line: - continue - - if line[0] =3D=3D ".": - self.data +=3D "\\&" + line + "\n" - else: - self.data +=3D line + "\n" + lines =3D contents.strip("\n").split("\n") + i =3D 0 + + while i < len(lines): + org_line =3D lines[i] + + line =3D KernRe(r"^\s*").sub("", org_line) + + if line: + if line[0] =3D=3D ".": + self.data +=3D "\\&" + line + "\n" + i +=3D 1 + continue + + i +=3D 1 + + self.data +=3D line + "\n" =20 def out_doc(self, fname, name, args): if not self.check_doc(name, args): --=20 2.52.0