linux-kernel - Re: coccinelle: api/devm_platform_ioremap

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910200735400.3689@hadrien>
Date:   Sun, 20 Oct 2019 07:38:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
cc:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>,
        Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: coccinelle: api/devm_platform_ioremap_resource: remove useless
 script

> If said script was providing a correct semantic patch instead of being
> an incentive for people to churn untested patches that span the whole
> tree, that'd be a different story. But that's not what this is about.

What is the actual incorrectness with the script?

An option could be to adjust the rule such that it can be run with an
extra command line option, like -D developer but is not run by default by
make coccicheck.

thanks,
julia