Just like functions and structs had their transform variables
placed at the beginning, move variable transforms to there
as well.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
index c03505889dc2..de75b102dd64 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py
@@ -194,6 +194,18 @@ function_xforms  = [
     (KernRe(r"__attribute__\s*\(\((?:[\w\s]+(?:\([^)]*\))?\s*,?)+\)\)\s+"), ""),
 ]
 
+#
+# Transforms for variable prototypes
+#
+var_xforms = [
+    (KernRe(r"__read_mostly"), ""),
+    (KernRe(r"__ro_after_init"), ""),
+    (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
+    (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
+    (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
+    (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),
+]
+
 #
 # Apply a set of transforms to a block of text.
 #
@@ -955,15 +967,6 @@ class KernelDoc:
         ]
         OPTIONAL_VAR_ATTR = "^(?:" + "|".join(VAR_ATTRIBS) + ")?"
 
-        sub_prefixes = [
-            (KernRe(r"__read_mostly"), ""),
-            (KernRe(r"__ro_after_init"), ""),
-            (KernRe(r"(?://.*)$"), ""),
-            (KernRe(r"(?:/\*.*\*/)"), ""),
-            (KernRe(r";$"), ""),
-            (KernRe(r"=.*"), ""),
-        ]
-
         #
         # Store the full prototype before modifying it
         #
@@ -987,7 +990,7 @@ class KernelDoc:
         # Drop comments and macros to have a pure C prototype
         #
         if not declaration_name:
-            for r, sub in sub_prefixes:
+            for r, sub in var_xforms:
                 proto = r.sub(sub, proto)
 
         proto = proto.rstrip()
-- 
2.52.0