linux-kernel - Re: thunderbolt: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "ring

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Date:	Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:03:36 +0100
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
CC:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: thunderbolt: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function
 call "ring_free"

> Why not just make the static source code analysis aware of the problem?

This is also possible, of course.


> You can treat static functions differently that non-static ones.

I have added this detail to my ideas around the next fine-tuning
for the published semantic patch approach.


> There is no need to change the code.

Can name space prefixes help to make source code a bit safer eventually?

Regards,
Markus
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