Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: revert broken NOTIFIER_HEAD check

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:30:36 +1000

Hi John,

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 15:54:43 -0700 [email-masked] wrote:
>
> From: John Hubbard <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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")

Thanks for the report.

I have removed that patch from linux-next today.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell