checkpatch: remove unnecessary + after {8,8}
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.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9846dde..0c520f7 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@
"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/) {}
}