From 0d18c19288601b66ad2852cceb66ae68972243dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:34:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] checkkconfigsymbols.py: support git's "^" syntax

Support git's "^" syntax for diffing two commits, for instance via
"--diff HEAD^^^..HEAD".

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellermann <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
index a32e4da4c1170..3820f00b066a7 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def parse_options():
     if args.commit and args.diff:
         sys.exit("Please specify only one option at once.")
 
-    if args.diff and not re.match(r"^[\w\-\.]+\.\.[\w\-\.]+$", args.diff):
+    if args.diff and not re.match(r"^[\w\-\.\^]+\.\.[\w\-\.\^]+$", args.diff):
         sys.exit("Please specify valid input in the following format: "
                  "\'commit1..commit2\'")
 
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