linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: coccinelle: remove check to move constants to right

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Message-ID: <20160330121934.GA9329@katana>
Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:19:34 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: coccinelle: remove check to move constants to
 right

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 06:43:08PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > The header mentions this check depends on personal taste. I agree.
> > Running coccicheck on patches before I apply them, this SmPL produced
> > enough false positives for me that I'd rather see it removed.
> 
> An improvement is coming up, that should be more acceptable.  However, 
> it's being held up by the need for some bug fixes in Coccinelle.  A 
> release of Coccinelle is planned for the beginning of April.  Perhaps 
> it is just as well to just remove this version for now.
> 
> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>

Michal, can we have that in v4.6 please? The false positives are
annoying...

Thanks,

   Wolfram


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