Re: [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching

2014-07-09 Thread Rusty Russell
Sam Ravnborg writes: > 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 >>

Re: [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching

2014-07-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
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 $

[PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching

2014-07-09 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
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

[PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching

2014-07-09 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
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

Re: [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching

2014-07-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
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

Re: [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching

2014-07-09 Thread Rusty Russell
Sam Ravnborg s...@ravnborg.org writes: 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,