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From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: [kernelnewbies]a question about checkpatch.pl
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:03:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402254199.8057.1.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7N6vo6hv7aKo6HGxRrDC8FWUpryj2uoHkJRCL3fJ+dEeyD5Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 11:44 -0700, anish singh wrote:
> Joe can help you with that.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 7:29 AM, lx <lxlenovostar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > hi all:
> > I used the script of checkpatch.pl, but some error messages appeared.
> > ##########################################
> > [root at localhost kernel_test]# perl checkpatch.pl -f task_01.c
> > Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <--
> > HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at checkpatch.pl line 444.
> > ##########################################
> > This is something with checkpatch.pl ? How to fix it.

Use a newer version of perl.
5.10 or higher.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-08 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-08 14:29 [kernelnewbies]a question about checkpatch.pl lx
2014-06-08 15:40 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2014-06-08 18:44 ` anish singh
2014-06-08 19:03   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-06-09 14:44     ` lx

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