checkpatch: remove unnecessary + after {8,8}

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commit 66cb4ee0e52ca721f609fd5eec16187189ae5fda
Author: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 09:40:47 2014 +1000

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: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Rini <[email protected]>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3fed5e4694f8aec4cd9d074f423f331d142332dc..74db2e24fc5e928006c4e7ee7f11c0e75dfd5e9c 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ sub process {
                                "please, no space before tabs\n" . $herevet) &&
                            $fix) {
                                while ($fixed[$linenr - 1] =~
-                                          s/(^\+.*) {8,8}+\t/$1\t\t/) {}
+                                          s/(^\+.*) {8,8}\t/$1\t\t/) {}
                                while ($fixed[$linenr - 1] =~
                                           s/(^\+.*) +\t/$1\t/) {}
                        }