netdev - Re: [Cocci] SmPL for automatic request_firmware

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Message-ID: <20140624003229.GE27687@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:32:29 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cocci] SmPL for automatic request_firmware_nowait() conversion

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 01:21:07AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:52:05PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> > Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com> :
> I was actually in the hopes a suitable transormation can be designed
> to put a wait_for_completion() in say ndo_init(). I was looking to
> see if a tranformation can be generalized of course if the above
> observations on probe() is something desirable to be addressed.

And a really cool check would be to transform all those non fatal
request_firmware() calls to request_firmware_direct().

  Luis
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