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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:30:57 -0800 From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com> To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Deletion of checks before the function call "iounmap" On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:19:34PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > Anyway, I'm essentially saying that I'd like to be 100% sure we have a > > guarantee before dropping all these. > > You can not be absolutely sure. There are various implementation details > which will eventually need further considerations. Let's consider them first. We don't ship code that is missing the implementation details. (At least, we try not to!) > I hope that a reasonable confidence can be achieved here. > > > >> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. > > > > What script? > > I published scripts for static source code analysis in March 2004. I didn't ask "when?"; where? > > Hand-rolled I guess? > > An extended version found some update candidates in source files for Linux > according to the software development status of "next-20141226". > > My approach is still incomplete at the moment. Then please complete it. Thanks, Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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