linux-kernel - Re: make checkpatch warn about memset with swapped arguments.

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Message-ID: <20110317200215.GA4084@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:02:15 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: make checkpatch warn about memset with swapped arguments.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 03:36:45PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

 > > +		if ($line =~ /memset.*\,(\ |)(0x|)0(\ |0|)\);/) {
 > 
 > Wouldn't this be a better regex:
 > 
 > 	if ($line =~ /memset.*\,\s*(0x)?0\s*\)\s*;/)

I dunno, regexps are all gobble-de-gook to me.  Why is it better ?

	Dave
 
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