Re: [cocci] [v3] coccinelle: Detect clk_register() anti-pattern

[Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>]

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>> another issue is that in one case, removing the error message leaves:
>>
>> ret = PTR_ERR(inno->phyclk);
>> return ret;
>>
>> This could be cleaned up to just return PTR_ERR(inno->phyclk)
> Note that there are lots of occurrences of
> 
> ret = e;
> return ret;
> 
> for some expression ret and e, and 99.99% of them are fine as is.  But in
> this specific case of error handling code, perhaps it is not useful to
> introduce more of them.

Will such a development concern trigger further collateral evolution
for desirable source code transformation approaches?

Regards,
Markus