[PATCH] devtools: fix regex matching literal plus in patches

[David Marchand]

On Tue, 5 May 2026 at 16:04, Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> In Extended Regular Expressions (ERE) as used in awk,
> '+' is a quantifier, not a literal character.
> The pattern /^+/ matches the start of any line
> instead of only lines beginning with a literal '+'.
> As a result, check_experimental_tags and check_internal_tags
> were matching context and removed lines in diffs, causing false positives.
>
> Use [+] character class to unambiguously match a literal '+'.
>
> Fixes: cfe3aeb170b2 ("remove experimental tags from all symbol definitions")
> Fixes: fba5af82adc8 ("eal: add internal ABI tag definition")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>


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David Marchand