Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle: Script to drop parenthesis in the return statements

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 18:49 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 21:59 +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> > > > This script detects the use of a parenthesis around return value ot the
> > > > return statements and removes them as they are unnecessary and against
> > > > the CodingStyle. A new directory called checkpatch is added for semantic
> > > > patches that just make patches for what checkpatch does. This will help
> > > > developers having checkpatch problems, to run the semantic patches in this
> > > > directory on their code and fix some of them automatically.
> > >
> > > checkpatch already has --fix and --fix-inplace options that
> > > do something similar.
> > 
> > OK.  Then it is not worth adding coccinelle scripts for simple changes
> > like this one.
> > 
> > I guess that some of the more complex changes, like choosing an
> > appropriate error message function, checkpatch does not do?
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting.
> 
> You mean choosing pr_err vs pr_notice or something
> like finding an active struct <foo> and converting
> printks to <foo>_<level>(&foo, fmt, ...)
> 
> from:
> {
> 	struct device *dev;
> 	...
> 	printk(KERN_ERR "msg", ...)
> to:
> 	dev_err(dev, "msg", ...)
> 
> checkpatch definitely can not do that.
> 
> Is it something else?

Yes, that is what I was thinking of.  Anyway, we can just test whether 
checkpatch --fix can d the change before proposing a semantic patch for 
it.

julia