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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:19:34 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: Deletion of checks before the function call "iounmap"
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To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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>

> Anyway, I'm essentially saying that I'd like to be 100% sure we have a
> guarantee before dropping all these.

You can not be absolutely sure. There are various implementation details
which will eventually need further considerations.

I hope that a reasonable confidence can be achieved here.


>> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> What script?

I published scripts for static source code analysis in March 2004.


> Hand-rolled I guess?

An extended version found some update candidates in source files for Linux
according to the software development status of "next-20141226".

My approach is still incomplete at the moment.

Regards,
Markus