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Message-ID: <1ba2fa241001231143l595f2861kda19831ffa1da2cd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:43:32 +0200
From: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] drivers/misc: Eliminate useless code
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk> wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>
> The variable priv 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 Tomas.Winker <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
I appreciate if you CC me next time.
Thanks
Tomas
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