From: Erick Karanja <karanja99erick@gmail.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Cc: outreachy@lists.linux.dev, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: Local-variable initialization semantic patch update
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:44:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f76e93e184020317aa87d8e6cd67fc41ba10e03.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f6a8d2a-5829-3adb-3324-8eeeafb61038@inria.fr>
On Mon, 2025-04-07 at 08:32 -0400, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025, Erick Karanja wrote:
>
> > The original semantic patch had deficiencies in handling
> > local variable initialization, especially with function calls in
> > declarations.
> > This reduced readability, obscured side effects and made debugging
> > harder.
>
> It is best to inline the semantic patches in the email, so that
> people can
> easily read and comment on it.
>
> Also, please try to be more direct in your comments. "had
> deficiencies"
> is not informative. What was the problem? What have you done about
> it?
> The log message should be a guide to help the person receiving the
> new
> code to know what to look for and to find out what is going on.
Hello Julia. Thank you for the review and I will make the required
changes.
Erick
>
> julia
>
> >
> > Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
> > Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-07 11:58 Local-variable initialization semantic patch update Erick Karanja
2025-04-07 12:32 ` Julia Lawall
2025-04-07 12:44 ` Erick Karanja [this message]
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