The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: remove unnecessary + after {8,8} has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ 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 origin.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch linux-next.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