Using repeating sequencies of .* seem to slow down the
processing speed on some cases. Also, currently, a "."
character is not properly handled as such.

Change the way regexes are created, in order to produce
better search expressions.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c69c01c12b1b30466177dcb17e45f833fb47713d.1632994565.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>