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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Ian Lartey <ian@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: fix error handling code
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:59:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101011125934.GM9231@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101011125056.GA25041@albatros>

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:50:56PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

> It is not greppable situation to simply change the behavior of all
> drivers.  I was looking for memory leak bugs in drivers/net/ and fixed
> some of them.  Manual looking through _all_ drivers takes much more
> time.  In general I try to search for repeatable bugs with coccinelle,
> but it is rare case.

The method you're using to generate the patches is pretty much
orthogonal to anything else, except of course in the case where you're
also submitting the automation for checking (which is useful where
possible).

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-10 17:29 [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: fix error handling code Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-10-11 12:00 ` Mark Brown
2010-10-11 12:15   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-10-11 12:36     ` Mark Brown
2010-10-11 12:50       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-10-11 12:59         ` Mark Brown [this message]

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