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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:01:20 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enforce sane perl version On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:10:13 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 13:06 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> > > > I got a bug report from a couple of users who said > > > checkpatch.pl was broken for them. It was erroring out on > > > fairly random lines most commonly with messages like: > > > > > > Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <--HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at ./checkpatch.pl line 340. > > > > > > The bug reporter was running a version of perl 5.8 which was > > > end-of-lifed in 2008 [] > > Other than Andrew Morton's (continuing?) use of perl 5.8 > > I'm fine with this. > > > > Andrew? Time to update your perl version? > > I run an FC6 test box just to irritate you guys. ;) yabut do you (have to) use checkpatch on that creakingly old test box? Maybe I can find a box with slackware 2.0 for you. It had perl 5.0.0. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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