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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function "kmem_cache_alloc" from SmPL rules
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:17:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22276745-4723-4391-4460-07f0820ae85b@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1802011040110.3135@hadrien>

>> The function "kmem_cache_alloc" was specified despite of the technical
>> detail that this function does not get a parameter passed which would
>> correspond to such a size information.
>>
>> Thus remove it from the first two SmPL rules and omit the rule "r4".
> 
> Nack.

I find such a rejection surprising once more.


> It should be supported by the size determined in another way.

I am curious on how our different views could be clarified further
for this special software situation.

* Do we agree that a proper size determination is essential for every
  condition in the discussed SmPL rules together with forwarding
  this information?

* How can a name be ever relevant (within the published SmPL approach)
  for a function when it was designed in the way that it should generally
  work without a size parameter?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-01 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAK7LNAR27r4j4c1FCh_ObpMpBKXgSP6Vq3P=reA-JKoTji6Q1A@mail.gmail.com>
2018-01-02 14:25 ` Rename the SmPL script “kzalloc-….cocci”? SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-02 14:28   ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-02 14:38     ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-02 14:43       ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-02 15:00         ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-08  9:55         ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 11:55     ` [PATCH] Coccinelle: Rename the script for a transformation of memory allocations SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 12:02       ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-03 12:13         ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 12:17           ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-03 12:31             ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 12:40               ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-03 12:45                 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-04  8:36                 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-04  8:54                   ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-04  9:43                     ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-17 16:47 ` [v2] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Safer transformations with SmPL SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-19 16:14 ` Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Checking consequences from the usage of at signs in Python strings SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-19 16:18   ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-19 16:43     ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-24  8:41     ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-31 17:28 ` [v2] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function =?UTF-8?B?4oCca21lbV9jYWNoZV9hbGxvY SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-31 17:38   ` =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=5Bv2=5D_Coccinelle=3A_zalloc-simple=3A_Delete_function_=E2=80=9Ckmem=5Fcache=5Fallo Julia Lawall
2018-01-31 17:53     ` [v2] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function =?UTF-8?B?4oCca21lbV9jYWNoZV9hbGxvY SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-01  9:35 ` [PATCH] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function "kmem_cache_alloc" from SmPL rules SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-01  9:40   ` Julia Lawall
2018-02-01 10:17     ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2018-02-01 10:27       ` Julia Lawall
2018-02-01 11:00         ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-03  7:22         ` Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Checking consistency for " SF Markus Elfring

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