linux-kernel - Re: drm/amdgpu: remove the redundant null check

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Message-ID: <dd351754-cb3a-b19a-64e1-f2f583c2a23a@web.de>
Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 10:38:48 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drm/amdgpu: remove the redundant null check

>> Were any source code analysis tools involved for finding
>> these update candidates?
> With the help of Coccinelle. You can find out some example in scripts/coccinelle/.

Thanks for such background information.
Was the script “ifnullfree.cocci” applied here?

Will it be helpful to add attribution for such tools
to any more descriptions in your patches?

Regards,
Markus