scripts/checkpatch.pl is deprecated

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 06:34:19PM +0100, Vicente Bergas wrote:
> 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?

Could be, but I am lazy ;)
Anyway, in this case it was easy enough to wget/git-am the patch. Just
did that.

Sascha


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