[PATCH - resend] checkpatch: Remove unnecessary + after {8,8}

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Thu Oct 30 07:12:04 EDT 2014


Hey Andrew,

can we get this one applied already - I'm seeing this warning at least
since before my summer vacation started! :-P

Thanks.

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 09:55:06AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> There's a useless "+" use that needs to be removed as perl 5.20
> emits a "Useless use of greediness modifier '+'" message each
> time it's hit.
> 
> Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> ---
> 
> Resending, maybe Andrew's all-seeing eye blinked...
> 
> On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 19:05 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Ok, with linux-next I get the same thing:
> 
> Thanks Greg.
> 
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index d5ac001..370a974 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2376,7 +2376,7 @@ sub process {
>  				"please, no space before tabs\n" . $herevet) &&
>  			    $fix) {
>  				while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~
> -					   s/(^\+.*) {8,8}+\t/$1\t\t/) {}
> +					   s/(^\+.*) {8,8}\t/$1\t\t/) {}
>  				while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~
>  					   s/(^\+.*) +\t/$1\t/) {}
>  			}
> 
> 
> 
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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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