Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2014 22:47:59 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching |
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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
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