linux-kernel - Re: Why these dot chars in scripts/checkpatch.pl?

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Message-ID: <481637D7.8090000@dawes.za.net>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:47:19 +0200
From:	Rogan Dawes <lists@...es.za.net>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why these dot chars in scripts/checkpatch.pl?

Paul Jackson wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> Perhaps I'm loosing my magic regex pixie dust, but the dot '.' char
> in the pattern "/^.#" in the following lines looks wrong to me, as if
> one were trying to match pre-processor directives that were set in by
> one character:

Perhaps it is because checkpatch.pl is supposed to check *patches*, 
which are typically indented by one character (+- )?

Rogan

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