From 0d3c6072f5b99d55029dcd7b0f156709c6b2e7df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:54:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] contrib/checkpatch: remove the first character off a diff

Otherwise the leading whitespace checks won't work on patches.
---
 contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 289dad82e9..d6b3c4451a 100755
--- a/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ if ($is_patch) {
 		new_file ($2);
 		next;
 	}
-	/^([ \+])(.*)/ or next;
+	s/^([ \+])(.*)/$2/ or next;
 	$line_no++;
 	$check_line = $1 eq '+';
 	$line = $2;