Re: [PATCH rcu 5/5] checkpatch: Complain about unexpected uses of RCU Tasks Trace

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jul 19 2023 - 14:44:29 EST


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.