The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: fix left brace warning has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-fix-left-brace-warning.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: fix left brace warning Using checkpatch.pl with Perl 5.22.0 generates the following warning: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; This patch fixes the warnings by escaping occurrences of the left brace inside the regular expression. Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-left-brace-warning scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-left-brace-warning +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3571,7 +3571,7 @@ sub process { # function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while, # or if closed on same line if (($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\).*\s*{/) and - !($line=~/\#\s*define.*do\s{/) and !($line=~/}/)) { + !($line=~/\#\s*define.*do\s\{/) and !($line=~/}/)) { if (ERROR("OPEN_BRACE", "open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { @@ -4083,8 +4083,8 @@ sub process { ## } #need space before brace following if, while, etc - if (($line =~ /\(.*\){/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) || - $line =~ /do{/) { + if (($line =~ /\(.*\)\{/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) || + $line =~ /do\{/) { if (ERROR("SPACING", "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { @@ -4531,7 +4531,7 @@ sub process { $dstat !~ /^for\s*$Constant$/ && # for (...) $dstat !~ /^for\s*$Constant\s+(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/ && # for (...) bar() $dstat !~ /^do\s*{/ && # do {... - $dstat !~ /^\({/ && # ({... + $dstat !~ /^\(\{/ && # ({... $ctx !~ /^.\s*#\s*define\s+TRACE_(?:SYSTEM|INCLUDE_FILE|INCLUDE_PATH)\b/) { $ctx =~ s/\n*$//; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ewk@xxxxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html