Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix MAINTAINERS: remove any use of {a,b}

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:34:43PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 05:31 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > On 25.02.16 at 13:21, <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This is the complain from perl:
> > > Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex;
> > > marked 
> > > by <-- HERE in m/^docs/misc/kconfig{ <-- HERE ,-language}\.txt/ at 
> > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 731.
> > > 
> > > Also, it does not work.
> > 
> > But who said these are (expected to be) regex patterns?
> 
> I expect this is a bug in get_maintainer.pl's regexes for parsing the file,
> not that the field itself is expected to be a regex.

I would say that it's a missing feature of get_maintainer.pl. It understand
. * and ?, and I guess also [].

I can try to handle {,} in get_maintainer.pl if you wish.

-- 
Anthony PERARD

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