checkpatch bailing out

From: Arend van Spriel
Date: Sat Mar 02 2013 - 07:03:04 EST


With my laptop being broken I have to work on a server provided by my employer and I am preparing some patches for submission. So I intended to run checkpatch, but I get the following message after which the script bails out:

$ git format-patch -1 --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 347.

The server runs RHEL5

2.6.18-308.20.1.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux

Perl interpreter:

$ /usr/bin/perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

My repository is based on wireless-testing repo.

Did a quick search on LKML, but not finding anything like this. Any help would be appreciated here.

Gr. AvS

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