linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] Coccinelle: Semantic patch for replacing puts with putc

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Message-ID: <5412D413.3080404@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:08:03 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
CC:	Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Coccinelle: Semantic patch for replacing puts with
 putc

> Using seq_puts to write a one-character string is suboptimal,
> since puts has to call strlen().

Are there any more functions which work with such strings in a similar way?
Would it make sense to look also at other function names?

Regards,
Markus
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