linux-kernel - Re: staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary uses of the variable "retval"

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:26:30 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary uses of the variable "retval"

>> Can you follow expectations around the proposed refactoring of any
>> function implementations?
> 
> I don't understand both questions. Maybe you need to give examples?

I suggest to try the following script (semantic patch for working with
the Coccinelle software) out on the discussed source files.


@checking_function_calls_directly@
identifier checker, retval, work;
expression list el;
statement is, es;
type rt;
@@
 rt checker(...)
 {
  <+...
-retval = work(el);
 if (
-    retval
+    work(el)
    )
    is
 else
    es
  ...+>
 }


Do you find such a source code transformation useful?

Regards,
Markus