On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 13:06 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.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: http://www.cpan.org/src/. Versions of perl > this old are at _best_ quite untested. At worst, they are crusty > and known to be completely broken. > > If folks have a system _that_ old, then we should have mercy on > them and give them a half-decent error message rather than fail > with nutty error messages. > > This patch enforces that checkpatch.pl is run with perl 5.10, > which was end-of-lifed in 2009. The new --ignore-perl-version > command-line switch will let folks override this if they want. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
Other than Andrew Morton's (continuing?) use of perl 5.8 I'm fine with this. Andrew? Time to update your perl version? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
