Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Error in scripts/checkpatch.pl | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sun, 07 Sep 2014 07:10:12 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 04:39 -0500, Daniel Bomar wrote: > Hello, I'm new to all this so please correct me if I'm sending this to > the wrong place. I'd like to report the following error that shows > whenever I run scripts/checkpatch.pl. The error shows at the top of > the output after which the script appears to function normally. I'm > running Arch Linux and Perl version 5.20.0. The error is as follows: > > Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in > m/(^\+.*) {8,8}+ <-- HERE \t/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2424.
Hello. Thanks for the report.
A patch to fix this was submitted a couple of months ago. It just takes awhile to get into the appropriate trees.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/11/809
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