linux-kernel - checkpatch bailing out

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Date:	Sat, 2 Mar 2013 13:02:40 +0100
From:	"Arend van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...onical.com>,
	"Joe Perches" <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: checkpatch bailing out

With my laptop being broken I have to work on a server provided by my 
employer and I am preparing some patches for submission. So I intended 
to run checkpatch, but I get the following message after which the 
script bails out:

$ git format-patch -1 --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- 
HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 347.

The server runs RHEL5

2.6.18-308.20.1.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux

Perl interpreter:

$ /usr/bin/perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

My repository is based on wireless-testing repo.

Did a quick search on LKML, but not finding anything like this. Any help 
would be appreciated here.

Gr. AvS

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