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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:10:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] include: linux: sysfs:
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 00:43 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > He was exagerating a bit to call it a "static checker" warning...
>
> Not really.
>
> False positives and false negatives exist in just about
> every static
> checker.
>
> > It's just checkpatch.pl complaining about adding spaces around the -
> > operator.
>
> checkpatch is a brain-damaged by design static checker.
> regexes can only be sensitive to patterns, not compiled code.
>
> > The sysfs file has a hyphen in the middle.
>
> Another option would be to use an underscore instead.

There are already underscores on either side.

julia

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