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 <[email protected]> know about it.


>From d2207ccbc59900311c88bb9150b24253cd4ddd49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:51:53 -0700
Subject: checkpatch: remove unnecessary + after {8,8}

From: Joe Perches <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 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 [email protected] 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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