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Message-ID: <49533960-e437-4042-951a-0221164bfa3d@web.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 08:56:06 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Easwar Hariharan <eahariha@...ux.microsoft.com>, cocci@...ia.fr,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@...ystack.cn>,
 Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
 Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>, Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
 Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>, Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
 ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [cocci] [PATCH v2 1/3] coccinelle: misc: secs_to_jiffies: Patch
 expressions too

> Teach the script to suggest conversions for timeout patterns where the
> arguments to msecs_to_jiffies() are expressions as well.
How do you imagine that the shown SmPL code fits ever to patch reviews?

Examples:
* https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/80cae791-663c-4589-b67e-d4d1049fcd98@web.de/
  https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2025-02/msg00002.html
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/3/151

* https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/e06cb7f5-7aa3-464c-a8a1-2c7b9b6a29eb@web.de/
  https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2025-01/msg00122.html
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/30/307


Regards,
Markus