On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 21:36 -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> commit 81398d99e9de80d9dbe65dfe7aadec9497f88242
> Author: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gi...@benyossef.com>
> Date: Wed Jul 31 14:44:23 2019 +1000
>
> checkpatch: add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as var definition
>
> has a typo, resulting in a truly amazing error message:
Ouch, thanks.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE
> in m/(?:
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> Fix the typo.
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -3891,7 +3891,7 @@ sub process {
> ^.DEFINE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
> ^.DECLARE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
> ^.LIST_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
> - ^.{$Ident}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
> + ^.${Ident}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
Perhaps also better to convert all the '\Q$name\E' to '\s*\Q$name\E\s*'
