1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
index d132f756d31d..047f463cdf4b 100755
--- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
+++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
@@ -38,16 +38,31 @@ while (<IN>) {
         my $f = $1;
         my $ln = $2;
 
-        # Makefiles contain nasty expressions to parse docs
-        next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/);
+        # Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs
+        next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/);
+
         # Skip this script
         next if ($f eq $scriptname);
 
-        if ($ln =~ m,\b(\S*)(Documentation/[A-Za-z0-9\_\.\,\~/\*\[\]\?+-]*),) {
+        if ($ln =~ m,\b(\S*)(Documentation/[A-Za-z0-9\_\.\,\~/\*\[\]\?+-]*)(.*),) {
                 my $prefix = $1;
                 my $ref = $2;
                 my $base = $2;
+                my $extra = $3;
+
+                # some file references are like:
+                # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/DMA-{API,mapping}.txt
+                # For now, ignore them
+                next if ($extra =~ m/^{/);
+
+                # Remove footnotes at the end like:
+                # Documentation/devicetree/dt-object-internal.txt[1]
+                $ref =~ s/(txt|rst)\[\d+]$/$1/;
+
+                # Remove ending ']' without any '['
+                $ref =~ s/\].*// if (!($ref =~ m/\[/));
 
+                # Remove puntuation marks at the end
                 $ref =~ s/[\,\.]+$//;
 
                 my $fulref = "$prefix$ref";