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genksyms: reduce type_qualifier directly to decl_specifier

A type_qualifier (const, volatile, etc.) is not a type_specifier.

According to K&R [1], a type-qualifier should be directly reduced to
a declaration-specifier.

<declaration-specifier> ::= <storage-class-specifier>
| <type-specifier>
| <type-qualifier>

[1]: https://cs.wmich.edu/~gupta/teaching/cs4850/sumII06/The%20syntax%20of%20C%20in%20Backus-Naur%20form.htm

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>

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scripts/genksyms/parse.y
··· 211 211 $$ = $1; 212 212 } 213 213 | type_specifier 214 + | type_qualifier 214 215 ; 215 216 216 217 storage_class_specifier: ··· 224 223 225 224 type_specifier: 226 225 simple_type_specifier 227 - | type_qualifier 228 226 | TYPEOF_KEYW '(' parameter_declaration ')' 229 227 | TYPEOF_PHRASE 230 228