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Message-ID: <20170717214531.6fbc6cfa@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:45:31 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, keescook@...omium.org,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] iio: orientation: hid-sensor-rotation: Drop
unnecessary static
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:07:44 +0200
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr> wrote:
> Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized before
> any possible use. Thus, the static has no benefit.
>
> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @bad exists@
> position p;
> identifier x;
> type T;
> @@
> static T x@p;
> ...
> x = <+...x...+>
>
> @@
> identifier x;
> expression e;
> type T;
> position p != bad.p;
> @@
> -static
> T x@p;
> ... when != x
> when strict
> ?x = e;
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out
as testing for the autobuilders to play with it.
Thanks,
Jonathan
>
> ---
> These patches are all independent of each other.
>
> drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -u -p a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c
> --- a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c
> @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int dev_rot_parse_report(struct p
> static int hid_dev_rot_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> int ret;
> - static char *name;
> + char *name;
> struct iio_dev *indio_dev;
> struct dev_rot_state *rot_state;
> struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev = pdev->dev.platform_data;
>
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