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

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Message-Id: <20140629102714.ea430bbd1f7c19e2f18fa56f@skynet.be>
Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:27:14 +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 23:00:22 +0200
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> > Sorry but I'm not working on coccinelle ; just did a small script for kernel tree.
> 
> I would appreciate a more constructive feedback for my update suggestions around
> the topic "Deletion of unnecessary checks before specific function calls".
> - Did you look at the concrete patches?
> - How do you think about the general approach?
> 
> Examples:
> https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2014-March/000676.html
> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=139405971927100&w=2
> 
> https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2014-March/000677.html
> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=139405983727148&w=2
> 
> Regards,
> Markus

Hello Markus,

	I hope you had information you wanted from Julia ?
If you want more feedback, maybe you can create a new RFC (Request For Comment) in Linux Kernel mailing.

Regards,
Fabian

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