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Subject: Re: [PATCH rcu 5/5] checkpatch: Complain about unexpected uses of
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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Date:   Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:44:17 -0700
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On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 11:27 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
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> > > > 
> Given perl's tendency to have corner cases in its corner cases, I
> am guessing that the "^" character combined with the "/" character is
> causing trouble here.  Especially given that I don't see any use of such
> a pattern anywhere in checkpatch.pl except directly in a "~" expression,
> and there are a lot of those.
> 
> So I will keep it as is unless I hear otherwise from Joe Perches.

I played with it a bit and can't think of anything better.

Code is always something that can be improved later so the
way Paul has it now is fine with me.