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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:51:05 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: kernel-doc patches for 4.18
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:40:00 -0700
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:

> Arch Linux recently enabled building the kernel documentation in their
> PKGBUILD, which turned my normally peaceful build into a spamfest of
> unescaped braces warnings from Perl.
> 
> These are fixed upstream with the following two patches:
> 
> 701b3a3c0ac4 ("PATCH scripts/kernel-doc")
> 673bb2dfc364 ("scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes")
> 
> Could they please be applied to 4.18? They should be clean cherry-picks.

I hadn't thought of those as -stable fodder, but I can see how that would
be helpful.  Certainly I have no objection to including them.

jon