linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] net: netfilter: remove unused variable

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Message-ID: <20170330125509.GD2980@verge.net.au>
Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:55:09 +0200
From:   Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:     Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@...il.com>
Cc:     outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com,
        Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>,
        Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        coreteam@...filter.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: netfilter: remove unused variable

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:27:52PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> This patch uses the following coccinelle script to remove
> a variable that was simply used to store the return
> value of a function call before returning it:
> 
> @@
> identifier len,f;
> @@
> 
> -int len;
>  ... when != len
>      when strict
> -len =
> +return
>         f(...);
> -return len;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@...il.com>

Applied with patch prefix updated to "ipvs:".