From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching
In-Reply-To: <20140709204759.GA32335@ravnborg.org>
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:44:11 +0930
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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:41:48AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> For several years, the pattern "foo$" has effectively been treated as
>> equivalent to "foo" due to a bug in the (misnamed) helper
>> number_prefix(). This hasn't been observed to cause any problems, so
>> remove the broken $ functionality and change all foo$ patterns to foo.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
>> ---
>> Sam, was this what you meant? Otherwise, I'd be more than happy to
>> leave the issue to someone else.
> Exactly - thanks.
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
>
> Rusty - I assume you pick this up and channel it through the module tree.
>
> 	Sam

Done, thanks!

Applied,
Rusty.
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