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@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> --- 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/) {} }