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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:31:43 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Deletion of checks before the function call "iounmap"
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:07:34PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> I published scripts for static source code analysis in March 2004.

^^ That would be March 2014, not March 2004.

> > I didn't ask "when?"; where?
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/5/356
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.coccinelle/3513/
> https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2014-March/000676.html
> 
> Do you get further ideas from this software analysis approach?

I suppose. I've gotten the idea that I can generate a ton of patches
using an automated tool, not test or research them, possibly add bugs to
the kernel, and still get a good percentage of my patches merged.

Now, have *you* learned anything from this approach?

Brian