[PATCH] devtools: fix awk regular expression
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Oct 27 16:25:39 CET 2025
On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:05:11 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> The latest version of awk (in Debian testing) will give a warning
> about invalid regular expression error.
>
> awk: line 6: regular expression compile failed (syntax error ^* or ^+)
> ^+++ b/
>
> Fix by using additional backslash escape.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
> devtools/checkpatches.sh | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Looks like upstream reverted this new warning. Patch is not needed.
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