Re: [PATCH v1] scripts/decodecode: Make it take multiline Code line

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Dec 12 2017 - 15:51:27 EST


On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:03:23 +0200 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In case of running scripts/decodecode without any parameters in order to give a
> copy'n'pasted Code line from, for example, email it would parse only first line
> of it, while in emails it's split to few.
>
> So, add a logic to join this split back if and only if the following lines have
> hex digits, or spaces, or '<', or '>' characters. It will be quite unlikely to
> have a broken input in well formed Oops or dmesg, thus a simple regex is being
> used.

That's rather hard to understand. An example would help?