From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754541Ab0JKM7i (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:59:38 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:60047 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754498Ab0JKM7g (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:59:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:59:34 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Vasiliy Kulikov Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Ian Lartey , Dimitris Papastamos , Liam Girdwood , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: fix error handling code Message-ID: <20101011125934.GM9231@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <1286731745-18169-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> <20101011120014.GJ9231@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101011121555.GA32652@albatros> <20101011123609.GL9231@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20101011125056.GA25041@albatros> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101011125056.GA25041@albatros> X-Cookie: Help a swallow land at Capistrano. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:50:56PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > It is not greppable situation to simply change the behavior of all > drivers. I was looking for memory leak bugs in drivers/net/ and fixed > some of them. Manual looking through _all_ drivers takes much more > time. In general I try to search for repeatable bugs with coccinelle, > but it is rare case. The method you're using to generate the patches is pretty much orthogonal to anything else, except of course in the case where you're also submitting the automation for checking (which is useful where possible).