From: Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why these dot chars in scripts/checkpatch.pl?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:47:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481637D7.8090000@dawes.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428153122.a94d21ba.pj@sgi.com>
Paul Jackson wrote:
> Andy,
>
> Perhaps I'm loosing my magic regex pixie dust, but the dot '.' char
> in the pattern "/^.#" in the following lines looks wrong to me, as if
> one were trying to match pre-processor directives that were set in by
> one character:
Perhaps it is because checkpatch.pl is supposed to check *patches*,
which are typically indented by one character (+- )?
Rogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 20:31 Why these dot chars in scripts/checkpatch.pl? Paul Jackson
2008-04-28 20:47 ` Rogan Dawes [this message]
2008-04-28 20:51 ` Paul Jackson
2008-04-28 22:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-28 23:06 ` +patch " Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-29 9:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-04-28 23:02 ` Andy Whitcroft
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