commit 1a47005dd5aa ("checkpatch: add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as var
definition") causes the following warning when run on some
patches:
Unescaped left brace in regex is passed through in regex;
marked by < --HERE in m/(?:
...
[238 lines of appalling perl output, mercifully not included]
...
)/ at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3889.
This is broken, so revert it until a better solution is found.
Fixes: 1a47005dd5aa ("checkpatch: add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as var
definition")
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <[email protected]>
Cc: Ofir Drang <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5c00151cdee8..284eb4bd84aa 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3891,7 +3891,6 @@ sub process {
^.DEFINE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
^.DECLARE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
^.LIST_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
- ^.{$Ident}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
^.(?:$Storage\s+)?$Type\s*\(\s*\*\s*\Q$name\E\s*\)\s*\(|
\b\Q$name\E(?:\s+$Attribute)*\s*(?:;|=|\[|\()
)/x) {
--
2.22.1
