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    checkpatch: enforce sane perl version · d62a201f
    Dave Hansen authored
    I got a bug report from a couple of users who said checkpatch.pl was
    broken for them.  It was erroring out on fairly random lines most commonly
    with messages like:
    
    	Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <--HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at ./checkpatch.pl line 340.
    
    The bug reporter was running a version of perl 5.8 which was end-of-lifed
    in 2008: http://www.cpan.org/src/.  Versions of perl this old are at
    _best_ quite untested.  At worst, they are crusty and known to be
    completely broken.
    
    If folks have a system _that_ old, then we should have mercy on them and
    give them a half-decent error message rather than fail with nutty error
    messages.
    
    This patch enforces that checkpatch.pl is run with perl 5.10, which was
    end-of-lifed in 2009.  The new --ignore-perl-version command-line switch
    will let folks override this if they want.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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