From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:55:12 +0000 Subject: Re: s390/net: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls Message-Id: <5457A560.2020304@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <5453C98C.90105@users.sourceforge.net> <20141103095059.GL6879@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20141103095059.GL6879@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr > This one is buggy. I am still interested to clarify this opinion a bit more. > I'm sorry, but please stop sending these. I am going to improve more implementation details in affected source files. > But for this one: > 1) I don't know what the functions do so I have to look at the code. I hope that static source code analysis can help here. > 2) It's in a arch that I don't compile so cscope isn't set up meaning > it's hard to find the functions. Do you find the Coccinelle software also useful for your area? > You're sending a lot of patches and they are all hard to review and some > of them are buggy and none of them really add any value. Thanks for your feedback. The suggested source code clean-up might result in a measurable effect depending on the call frequency for the changed functions. Can I help you in any ways to make corresponding review easier? > It's a waste of your time and it's a waste of my time. It can be your choice to reject my update suggestion. Regards, Markus