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

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Subject: [PATCH - resend] checkpatch: Remove unnecessary + after {8,8}
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:55:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409590506.2614.4.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140712020520.GA18611@kroah.com>

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>
---

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/) {}
 			}



