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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:47:19 +0200
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Subject: Re: Why these dot chars in scripts/checkpatch.pl?
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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