Re: [PATCH] cleanup: Tweak and re-run return_directly.cocci

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 14:03, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Tweak the semantic patch to drop redundant parenthesis around the
>> return expression.
>>
>> Coccinelle drops comments in hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c; restored
>> manually.
>>
>> Coccinelle messes up vmdk_co_create(), not sure why.  Transformed
>> manually.
>>
>> Line breaks in target/avr/cpu.h and hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c tidied up
>> manually.
>>
>> Whitespace in fuse_reply_iov() tidied up manually.
>>
>> checkpatch.pl complains "return of an errno should typically be -ve"
>> two times for hw/9pfs/9p-synth.c.  Preexisting, the patch merely makes
>> it visible to checkpatch.pl.
>>
>> checkpatch.pl complains "return is not a function, parentheses are not
>> required" three times for target/mips/tcg/dsp_helper.c.  False
>> positives.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>
>>  .../user/ase/msa/bit-count/test_msa_nloc_b.c  |   9 +-
>>  .../user/ase/msa/bit-count/test_msa_nloc_d.c  |   9 +-
> [snip long list of other mips test files]
>
>>  328 files changed, 989 insertions(+), 2099 deletions(-)
>
> This patch seems to almost entirely be huge because of these
> mips test case files. Are they specific to QEMU or are they
> effectively a 3rd-party import that it doesn't make sense
> to make local changes to?

Good question.

> I definitely don't think you should put manual tidying changes
> in the same patch as 3000 lines of automated changes: that
> is in my opinion un-reviewable.

I can split off the manual cleanup of vmdk_co_create().

The others are really just "don't delete this comment", "don't insert
a line containing just spaces", and "don't reflow this expression, keep
the line breaks right where they are".