Removing it causes the parse to break some conversions, when
NestedMatch is used on macros like __attribute__().

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
 tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
index a49b42e3d189..294051dbc050 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
@@ -358,10 +358,6 @@ class NestedMatch:
 
             out += new_sub
 
-            # Drop end ';' if any
-            if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';':
-                pos += 1
-
             cur_pos = pos
             n += 1
 
-- 
2.52.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org> On Behalf
> Of Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2026 9:08 AM
> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>; Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-
> doc@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>;
> bpf@vger.kernel.org; intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; linux-
> hardening@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>;
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3 29/30] docs: kdoc_re: don't
> remove the trailing "; " with NestedMatch
> 
> Removing it causes the parse to break some conversions, when
> NestedMatch is used on macros like __attribute__().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> index a49b42e3d189..294051dbc050 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> +++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py
> @@ -358,10 +358,6 @@ class NestedMatch:
> 
>              out += new_sub
> 
> -            # Drop end ';' if any
> -            if pos < len(line) and line[pos] == ';':
> -                pos += 1
> -
>              cur_pos = pos
>              n += 1
> 
> --
> 2.52.0

Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>