The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: remove unnecessary + after {8,8} has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88 scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88 +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@ 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/) {} } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-allow-commit-descriptions-on-separate-line-from-commit-id.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-fix-spello.patch checkpatch-remove-debugging-message.patch checkpatch-update-allowed_asm_includes-macros-add-rebooth-and-timeh.patch checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files.patch checkpatch-allow-optional-shorter-config-descriptions.patch checkpatch-allow-optional-shorter-config-descriptions-v4.patch checkpatch-add-strict-test-for-concatenated-string-elements.patch checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88.patch ipc-always-handle-a-new-value-of-auto_msgmni.patch linux-next.patch lib-string_helpers-move-documentation-to-c-file.patch lib-string_helpers-refactoring-the-test-suite.patch lib-string_helpers-introduce-string_escape_mem.patch lib-vsprintf-add-%pe-format-specifier.patch wireless-libertas-print-esaped-string-via-%pe.patch wireless-ipw2x00-print-ssid-via-%pe.patch wireless-hostap-proc-print-properly-escaped-ssid.patch wireless-hostap-proc-print-properly-escaped-ssid-fix.patch lib80211-remove-unused-print_ssid.patch staging-wlan-ng-use-%pehp-to-print-sn.patch staging-rtl8192e-use-%pen-to-escape-buffer.patch staging-rtl8192u-use-%pen-to-escape-buffer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html