scripts/checkpatch.pl is deprecated

[Sascha Hauer]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 08:42:42PM +0100, Vicente Bergas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This commit applies as is in barebox, so, can it be applied?
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=6b8c69e4384b0bcf1936c2137804840212daaf69

Yes. Can you send this as patch to the list?

Sascha

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