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

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Date:	Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:32:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
cc:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH V3] scripts/coccinelle/free: Delete NULL test
 before freeing functions?



On Sat, 28 Jun 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

>
> > V3:
> >    -Update print_main message.
>
> Does the discussion topic need also an adjustment?
>
> 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 would prefer to accept Fabian's semantic patch for the moment, as it
considers a more restricted, well thought out, set of functions,

julia
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