linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MTD: Deletion of checks before the function call "iounmap"

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Message-ID: <20150119203143.GL9759@ld-irv-0074>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:31:43 -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 08:07:34PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> I published scripts for static source code analysis in March 2004.

^^ That would be March 2014, not March 2004.

> > I didn't ask "when?"; where?
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/5/356
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.coccinelle/3513/
> https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2014-March/000676.html
> 
> Do you get further ideas from this software analysis approach?

I suppose. I've gotten the idea that I can generate a ton of patches
using an automated tool, not test or research them, possibly add bugs to
the kernel, and still get a good percentage of my patches merged.

Now, have *you* learned anything from this approach?

Brian
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