This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
checkpatch: remove unnecessary + after {8,8}
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-8-8.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d2207ccbc59900311c88bb9150b24253cd4ddd49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:51:53 -0700
Subject: checkpatch: remove unnecessary + after {8,8}
From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit d2207ccbc59900311c88bb9150b24253cd4ddd49 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2424,7 +2424,7 @@ 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 stable-queue which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/ipc-always-handle-a-new-value-of-auto_msgmni.patch
queue-3.17/checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-8-8.patch
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