From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756316Ab3G2XBY (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:01:24 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:60268 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755005Ab3G2XBX (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:01:23 -0400 Message-ID: <1375138880.2075.82.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enforce sane perl version From: Joe Perches To: Andrew Morton Cc: Dave Hansen , Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:01:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130729155210.cc90c5790ad83d63bd30e508@linux-foundation.org> References: <20130729200606.2651EE1E@viggo.jf.intel.com> <1375128613.2075.56.camel@joe-AO722> <20130729155210.cc90c5790ad83d63bd30e508@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:10:13 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 13:06 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > From: Dave Hansen > > > I got a bug report from a couple of users who said > > > checkpatch.pl was broken for them. It was erroring out on > > > fairly random lines most commonly with messages like: > > > > > > Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <--HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at ./checkpatch.pl line 340. > > > > > > The bug reporter was running a version of perl 5.8 which was > > > end-of-lifed in 2008 [] > > Other than Andrew Morton's (continuing?) use of perl 5.8 > > I'm fine with this. > > > > Andrew? Time to update your perl version? > > I run an FC6 test box just to irritate you guys. ;) yabut do you (have to) use checkpatch on that creakingly old test box? Maybe I can find a box with slackware 2.0 for you. It had perl 5.0.0.