[PATCH] reformat_with_checkpatch: Add automation to checkpatch

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 07:01:14PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:46:52PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:39 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:21:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > A simple script to run checkpatch --fix for various types of
> > > > of cleanups.
> > ]
> > > drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.
> > > file: <drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h> description: <update c90 comment style> types:<c99_comments>
> > > Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(^\+.*) {8,8}+ <-- HERE \t/ at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2217.
> > []
> > > drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.
> > []
> > > Is that expected?
> > 
> > No, I haven't seen that.
> > 
> > Can you tell me what git tree you're working on?
> 
> My staging-next branch of staging.git on git.kernel.org
> 
> > Also, can you use the scripts/checkpatch from -next
> > tag next-20140711
> 
> that will take a bit to checkout, I'll do that afterward.
> 
> > My system has:
> > 
> > $ perl --version 
> > 
> > This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
> > (with 41 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
> 
> I think this started showing up for me for perl 5.20.  Let me go
> checkout linux-next and see if that fixes anything or not...

Ok, with linux-next I get the same thing:

~/linux/tmp/linux-next $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --strict drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h --types=c99_comments
Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(^\+.*) {8,8}+ <-- HERE \t/ at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2358.
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 220 lines checked

NOTE: Used message types: C99_COMMENTS

drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.