linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: r8188eu: delete unnecessary field initialization

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Message-ID: <20140215204158.GA15040@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:41:58 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: r8188eu: delete unnecessary field
 initialization

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 08:36:12AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> On success, the function netdev_alloc_skb initializes the dev field of its
> result to its first argument, so this doesn't have to be done in the
> calling context.
> 
> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression skb,privn,e;
> @@
> 
> skb = netdev_alloc_skb(privn,...);
> ... when strict
> (
> -skb->dev = privn;
> |
> ?skb = e
> )
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_ops_linux.c |    1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

No longer applies to my tree :(

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