Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert: checkpatch: check trace-events code style

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 12:59:04PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 04.10.2017 01:00, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Commit c3e5875afc0f ("checkpatch: check trace-events code style")
> > introduces a regression as reported:
> > 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05820.html
> > 
> > Bareword found where operator expected at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 1350, near "s/($hex[.:\/ ])+$hex//gr"
> > syntax error at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 1350, near "s/($hex[.:\/ ])+$hex//gr"
> > Execution of ./scripts/checkpatch.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
> > 
> > $ perl -v
> > 
> > This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> 
> v5.10.1 is 8 years old.
> most possibly the error relates to  /r modifier, which was added int perl
> 5.14, so, possible solution would be
> 
> @@ -1432,7 +1432,8 @@ sub process {
>                      qr/%[-+
> *.0-9]*([hljztL]|ll|hh)?(x|X|"\s*PRI[xX][^"]*"?)/;
> 
>                  # don't consider groups splitted by [.:/ ], like 2A.20:12ab
> -                my $tmpline = $rawline =~ s/($hex[.:\/ ])+$hex//gr;
> +                my $tmpline = $rawline;
> +                my $tmpline =~ s/($hex[.:\/ ])+$hex//g;
> 
>                  if ($tmpline =~ /(?<!0x)$hex/) {
>                      ERROR("Hex numbers must be prefixed with '0x'\n" .

Yes, that fixes the error when run on a rhel6 vintage Perl. 

Regards,
Daniel
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