linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix unescaped left brace

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Message-ID: <6ba830d2a07b93e5c6602fcc1b329d74dcb7e2d8.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:04:26 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix unescaped left brace

On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 14:37 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> I have seen that
> the perl_version_ok check mandates perl 5.10 which was
> released more than 10 years back.
> 
> Do you think that check could be removed completely?
> Maybe sometime in the future or just have it lay around
> for backward compatibility?

I think having the check in the code isn't burdensome.