Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:02:36 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH rcu 5/5] checkpatch: Complain about unexpected uses of RCU Tasks Trace |
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:44:17AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 11:27 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > [] > > > > > > > Given perl's tendency to have corner cases in its corner cases, I > > am guessing that the "^" character combined with the "/" character is > > causing trouble here. Especially given that I don't see any use of such > > a pattern anywhere in checkpatch.pl except directly in a "~" expression, > > and there are a lot of those. > > > > So I will keep it as is unless I hear otherwise from Joe Perches. > > I played with it a bit and can't think of anything better. > > Code is always something that can be improved later so the > way Paul has it now is fine with me.
Then I don't feel so bad not finding anything better myself.
Thank you, and if nothing else this exercise refreshed a few of my perl neurons. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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