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@perches.com>
Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9846ddeafdf090cb034e691af9ca5b3b70a1754a..0c520f7bf095b4451658a533d1eb7c91ad8dd0f6 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/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/) {}
                        }