Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:47:19 +0200 | From | Rogan Dawes <> | 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
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