linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] scripts/coccinelle/free: Delete NULL test before freeing functions?

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Message-Id: <20140628140157.98304218ad0919b1567cfee4@skynet.be>
Date:	Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:01:57 +0200
From:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] scripts/coccinelle/free: Delete NULL test before
 freeing functions?

On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:38:15 +0200
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> 
> >> How do you think about my previous update suggestion "Deletion of
> >> unnecessary checks before specific function calls"?
> >> https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2014-March/000675.html
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/5/344
> >     I didn't see you made the same kind of script.
> 
> Will my approach become a bit more complete in the near future?
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.coccinelle/3512/
> 

Sorry but I'm not working on coccinelle ; just did a small script for kernel tree. I guess you'll have an answer from coccinelle people.

Regards,
Fabian

> Regards,
> Markus
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