Address several issues related to pointing to the wrong line number: 1) ensure that line numbers will always be initialized
When section is the default (Description), the line number is not initializing, producing this: $ ./scripts/kernel-doc --enable-lineno ./drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c|less **Description** #define LINENO 0 In case of streamoff or release called on any context, 1] If the context is currently running, then abort job will be called 2] If the context is queued, then the context will be removed from the job_queue Which is not right. Ensure that the line number will always be there. After applied, the result now points to the right location: **Description** #define LINENO 410 In case of streamoff or release called on any context, 1] If the context is currently running, then abort job will be called 2] If the context is queued, then the context will be removed from the job_queue 2) The line numbers for function prototypes are always + 1, because it is taken at the line after handling the prototype. Change the logic to point to the next line after the /** */ block; 3) The "DOC:" line number should point to the same line as this markup is found, and not to the next one. Probably part of the issues were due to a but that was causing the line number offset to be incremented by one, if --export were used. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> --- scripts/kernel-doc | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc index a3453de4495c..297312824d26 100755 --- a/scripts/kernel-doc +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ sub dump_function($$) { my $file = shift; my $noret = 0; - print_lineno($.); + print_lineno($new_start_line); $prototype =~ s/^static +//; $prototype =~ s/^extern +//; @@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ sub process_name($$) { if (/$doc_block/o) { $state = STATE_DOCBLOCK; $contents = ""; - $new_start_line = $. + 1; + $new_start_line = $.; if ( $1 eq "" ) { $section = $section_intro; @@ -2117,6 +2117,7 @@ sub process_body($$) { if ($state == STATE_BODY_WITH_BLANK_LINE && /^\s*\*\s?\S/) { dump_section($file, $section, $contents); $section = $section_default; + $new_start_line = $.; $contents = ""; } @@ -2172,6 +2173,7 @@ sub process_body($$) { $prototype = ""; $state = STATE_PROTO; $brcount = 0; + $new_start_line = $. + 1; } elsif (/$doc_content/) { if ($1 eq "") { if ($section eq $section_context) { -- 2.26.2