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DateSun, 11 May 2008 10:13:58 +0200
FromSam Ravnborg <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbuild: escape meta characters in regular expression in make TAGS
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:04:31PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> introduced a code adds
> menuconfig SOMETHING in Kconfig to tags output when you did "make tags".
> 
> See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=80ff26241623875636674a31c0540a78c0fb5433
> 
> "make tags" may work fine with his code. However make TAGS doesn't work well
> because etags command requires backslashes to escape meta characters like 
> `(', `)' and `|'.
> 
> Here is a patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>

Thanks Masatake.

Applied and pushed out to kbuild-fixes.

	Sam


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