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

Sören Brinkmann soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com
Sun Aug 31 16:58:50 EDT 2014


Hi Joe,

On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 07:09PM -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.

I saw this Perl warning today as well and wondered whether this patch is
coming or not. Apparently it's not in linux-next (yet).

	Thanks,
	Sören



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