Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Allow '+' in compatible strings

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 14 2020 - 13:12:06 EST


On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 10:21 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 3:41 AM Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The current checks will interpret a '+' character as special because
> > they use regular expression matching. Escape the '+' character if it
> > appears in a compatible string.
>
> Ugg, looks like c6x really liked using '+'. Might need to be added in
> schema checks, too. Not sure offhand.

These are the non alphanumeric characters used in .dts and .dtsi files
with 'compatible=' strings

- 44115
, 32035
. 1131
_ 259
+ 46
/ 18
) 5
( 5

So it looks like

"("
")"

need to be added and escaped too

?