Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix false positive for REPEATED_WORD warning

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 08:18 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> I might add that check to the line below where
> the repeated words are checked against long
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -3062,6 +3062,7 @@ sub process {
>  
>  				next if ($first ne $second);
>  				next if ($first eq 'long');
> +				next if ($first =~ /^$Hex$/;

oops.  with a close parenthesis added of course...