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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 20:29:09 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: check for propagation of error from platform_get_irq
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On 12/26/2015 11:24 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:

> The conclusion seems to be that it is useful to override the value, so we
> can just drop this semantic patch.

    No! As I said, unconditionally overriding an error value breaks the 
deferred probing. It's actually a bug to override it, so the patch seems 
*very* useful.

> julia

MBR, Sergei