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

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

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/) {}
 			}




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