On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:07:44 +0200 Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> wrote:
> Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized before > any possible use. Thus, the static has no benefit. > > The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // <smpl> > @bad exists@ > position p; > identifier x; > type T; > @@ > static T x@p; > ... > x = <+...x...+> > > @@ > identifier x; > expression e; > type T; > position p != bad.p; > @@ > -static > T x@p; > ... when != x > when strict > ?x = e; > // </smpl> > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for the autobuilders to play with it. Thanks, Jonathan > > --- > These patches are all independent of each other. > > drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff -u -p a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c > b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c > --- a/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c > +++ b/drivers/iio/orientation/hid-sensor-rotation.c > @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int dev_rot_parse_report(struct p > static int hid_dev_rot_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > { > int ret; > - static char *name; > + char *name; > struct iio_dev *indio_dev; > struct dev_rot_state *rot_state; > struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev = pdev->dev.platform_data; >
