linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] coccinelle: misc: semantic patch to delete overly complex return code processing

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Message-ID: <20140926114309.GA31096@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:43:10 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Gilles.Muller@...6.fr, nicolas.palix@...g.fr,
	cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] coccinelle: misc: semantic patch to delete overly
	complex return code processing

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 07:34:45AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> This semantic patch simplifies cases where the effect of the processing of
> a function call's return code is just to return the result of the function
> directly.  It may also delete a local return flag variable, if this is no
> longer used.
> 
> This was proposed by Uwe Kleine-König.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Applied to kbuild.git#misc, thanks.

Michal
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