netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/9] net/sctp: Eliminate useless code

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:03:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vladislav.yasevich@...com
Cc:	julia@...u.dk, sri@...ibm.com, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] net/sctp: Eliminate useless code

From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:10:10 -0500

> 
> 
> Julia Lawall wrote:
>> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>> 
>> The variable newinet is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free)
>> expression.  Drop one initialization.
>> 
>> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is:
>> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>> 
>> // <smpl>
>> @forall@
>> idexpression *x;
>> identifier f!=ERR_PTR;
>> @@
>> 
>> x = f(...)
>> ... when != x
>> (
>> x = f(...,<+...x...+>,...)
>> |
>> * x = f(...)
>> )
>> // </smpl>
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>

Julia,  just like patch #3 this one had the missing final
line of the patch corrupting it, so you'll need to resubmit.
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