scripts/checkpatch.pl is deprecated

[Vicente Bergas]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 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?

Why does it need to be in the list? can not it be applied directly?

>
> Sascha
>
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