From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E329CC2D0E4 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9938B2463D for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726925AbgKQQEa (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:04:30 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0225.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.225]:34252 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725767AbgKQQEa (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:04:30 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9FE18225DF8; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:04:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: earth94_2c0ee1027332 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1447 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <6ba830d2a07b93e5c6602fcc1b329d74dcb7e2d8.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix unescaped left brace From: Joe Perches To: Dwaipayan Ray , linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Lukas Bulwahn , linux-kernel Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:04:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <20201115202928.81955-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> <67332536788cefbc39c7f87129adca462bb42fa5.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 14:37 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > I have seen that > the perl_version_ok check mandates perl 5.10 which was > released more than 10 years back. > > Do you think that check could be removed completely? > Maybe sometime in the future or just have it lay around > for backward compatibility? I think having the check in the code isn't burdensome.