From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 22:47:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140709204759.GA32335@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a98idg2r.fsf_-_@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:41:48AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> For several years, the pattern "foo$" has effectively been treated as
> equivalent to "foo" due to a bug in the (misnamed) helper
> number_prefix(). This hasn't been observed to cause any problems, so
> remove the broken $ functionality and change all foo$ patterns to foo.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> ---
> Sam, was this what you meant? Otherwise, I'd be more than happy to
> leave the issue to someone else.
Exactly - thanks.
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Rusty - I assume you pick this up and channel it through the module tree.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-09 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-25 8:46 [PATCH] scripts/mod/modpost.c: Fix bug in number_prefix Rasmus Villemoes
2014-06-25 14:26 ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-06-25 22:57 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2014-07-08 23:58 ` Rusty Russell
2014-07-09 7:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-07-09 9:41 ` [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching Rasmus Villemoes
2014-07-09 20:47 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2014-07-10 1:14 ` Rusty Russell
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