From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Daniel Bomar <dbdaniel42@gmail.com>
Cc: apw@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error in scripts/checkpatch.pl
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 07:10:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410099012.2723.13.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMXhOsrZfqvB3YDvdATwBAd9OJCxuAZWkdukenzLp4VKyZ_Svw@mail.gmail.com>
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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2014-09-07 9:39 Daniel Bomar
2014-09-07 14:10 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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