scripts/checkpatch.pl is deprecated

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Thu Jan 12 02:27:48 PST 2017


On 11/01/17 20:07, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 08:35:11PM +0100, Vicente Bergas wrote:
>> Hello,
>> when using scripts/checkpatch.pl it may report:
>>   Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated,
>>   passed through in regex at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2267.
>
> I bet this scripts originates from the kernel. So I'd recommend to test
> if their version is affected to. If yes, report to them, if not, update
> barebox to latest Linux version.

In the Linux kernel, this was fixed in commit 
6b8c69e4384b0bcf1936c2137804840212daaf69 ("checkpatch: fix another left 
brace warning"), which made it into the the 4.6 kernel.

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