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

[Thomas Monjalon]

18/05/2026 13:55, 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>

Applied