On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 00:12 +0900, Roman Pen wrote:
> on my perl v5.20 I got:
> Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by
> <-- HERE in m/(^\+.*) {8,8}+ <-- HERE \t/ at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line
> 2427.
>
> greediness modifier '+' in construction '\s{8,8}+' does not make
> any sense, because we already specify how many chars do we expect.
>
> Also we can avoid second ',8' and use simple '\s{8}'.
Thanks Roman, it's already fixed in -next.
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/scripts/checkpatch.pl?id=66cb4ee0e52ca721f609fd5eec16187189ae5fda
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