From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752091Ab3CBMC5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Mar 2013 07:02:57 -0500 Received: from mms2.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.18]:4881 "EHLO mms2.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751836Ab3CBMC4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Mar 2013 07:02:56 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: 4500596E-606A-40F9-852D-14843D8201B2 Message-ID: <5131EA60.40607@broadcom.com> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 13:02:40 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111103 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andy Whitcroft" , "Joe Perches" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: checkpatch bailing out X-WSS-ID: 7D2F361C3S46039131-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With my laptop being broken I have to work on a server provided by my employer and I am preparing some patches for submission. So I intended to run checkpatch, but I get the following message after which the script bails out: $ git format-patch -1 --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl - Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 347. The server runs RHEL5 2.6.18-308.20.1.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux Perl interpreter: $ /usr/bin/perl -v This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi My repository is based on wireless-testing repo. Did a quick search on LKML, but not finding anything like this. Any help would be appreciated here. Gr. AvS