linux-kernel - Re: Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Fix patch mode for dma_alloc

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Message-ID: <045a4a1a-c841-2979-c899-b632ca418b3b@web.de>
Date:   Tue, 7 Apr 2020 19:10:46 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Alex Dewar <alex.dewar@....co.uk>, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Enrico Weigelt <lkml@...ux.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Fix patch mode for
 dma_alloc_coherent()

>> Will the software development attention grow in a way so that further
>> implementation details can be adjusted also for the mentioned SmPL script?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Would you mind clarifying?

You would like to a change a file for which some software development
discussions happened a while ago.
Do you get any further ideas from available information in message archives?

Julia Lawall (and me) pointed special development concerns out.

Example:
Code duplications in SmPL disjunctions
https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/alpine.DEB.2.21.2004062115000.10239@hadrien/
https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2020-April/007099.html

Regards,
Markus