sanitize.lua: A tool to extract interfaces from files

This is a simple too to remove all comments, extra whitespace and other
unnecessary things that may have creative content. What remains can be
just the minimal interface described by the header file. When used with
care, this can mechanically sanitize files, like some device tree
bindings file, that are only #defines that are meant to be used in
multiple context (the dts files and in C code to interpret the resulting
dtb).

Sponsored by:		Netflix
Reviewed by:		kevans
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55087

tools/tools/git/sanitize.lua

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+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+-- Copyright 2026 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
+
+--
+-- Removes all comments, blank lines and extra whitespace from a C header file
+-- and inserts a generated from comment at the top. Generally, this extracts the
+-- smallest subset of the file that describes the interface that is necessary to
+-- interoperate with that software. The user of this program should check the
+-- results, however, to ensure the result minimally describes the public
+-- interface.
+--
+-- When applied to device-tree binding files, this will result in the #defines
+-- being extracted, which are needed to generate the .dtb files, as well as for
+-- code to interpret the .dtb files. The device-tree files must be written this
+-- way to be used for this dual purpose. Other header files may not be so
+-- constrained, which makes review necessary for those context.
+--
+
+--
+-- Useage lua sanitize.lua fn description
+--
+-- fn will be read in, sanitized and the results printed on stdout.
+-- The description will be all remaining args and will be inserted
+-- in the first line comment to describe where the source file was
+-- obtained from.
+--
+
+-- Open the file from the command line
+local fn = arg[1]
+if not fn then
+	print("Usage: sanitize fn")
+	os.exit(1)
+end
+
+-- read it all in
+local f = assert(io.open(fn))
+local content = f:read("*all")
+f:close()
+
+-- Transform
+content = content:gsub("/%*.-%*/", "")		-- Remove block comments, .- is lazy, not greed, match
+content = content:gsub("//[^\n]*", "")		-- Remove single line comments 
+content = content:gsub("%s*\n", "\n")		-- Remove trailing white space
+content = content:gsub("\t+", " ")		-- Convert blocks of tabs to a space
+content = content:gsub("\n+", "\n")		-- Remove blank lines
+content = content:gsub("\n+$", "")		-- Strip blank lines at the end (print adds one)
+content = content:gsub("^\n+", "")		-- Strip leading blank lines
+
+print("/* @" .. "generated from the interface found in " .. fn .. " -- result is in public domain */")
+if arg[2] then
+	print("/* from " .. table.concat(table.pack(table.unpack(arg, 2)), ' ') .. " */")
+end
+print(content)