[PATCH - resend] checkpatch: Remove unnecessary + after {8,8}
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Mon Sep 1 12:55:06 EDT 2014
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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