linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Coccicheck: Remove memcpy to struct assignment test

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Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:37:23 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
CC:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"cocci@...teme.lip6.fr" <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
	Andreea Bernat <bernat.ada@...il.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Coccicheck: Remove memcpy to struct assignment test

Dne 19.3.2014 17:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman napsal(a):
>>>> On Die, 2014-03-18 at 22:11 +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
>>>>> The Coccinelle script scripts/coccinelle/misc/memcpy-assign.cocci look
>>>>> for opportunities to replace a call to memcpy by a struct assignment.
>>>>> This patch removes memcpy-assign.cocci as it is not clear that this
>>>>> convention has an impact on the generated code.
[...]
> Can someone please just remove the check from the kernel as I'm getting
> tired of rejecting patches that do this...

I just applied Peter's revert to kbuild.git#misc.

Michal

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