On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 16:39 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:51:17AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 15:37 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > Consolidate the if (foo) bar(foo) detectors into a single check. Add > > > debugfs_remove and family. > > > > > > Based on a patch by Constantine Shulyupin <co...@makelinux.com>. > > [] > > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > > [] > > > > > > +# check for needless "if (<foo>) fn(<foo>)" uses > > > + if ($prevline =~ /\bif\s*\(\s*($Lval)\s*\)/) { > > > + my $expr = '\s*\(\s*' . quotemeta($1) . '\s*\)\s*;'; > > > + > > [] > > > +# check for needless debugfs_remove() and debugfs_remove_recursive*() > > > checks > > > > Hey Andy, that's an incomplete comment. > > Just remove it. > > Oh it is meant to drop next to the other comments from the preceeding > hunks which are being removed, it should end up looking like this: > > # check for needless kfree() checks > # check for needless usb_free_urb() checks > # check for needless debugfs_remove() and debugfs_remove_recursive*() checks > > Admitedly the trailing checks on each are a little redundant, but it is > intended to retain the list of functions affected.
I think all of those are unnecessary. Self documenting code is better right? If not, I'd remove the "check for needless", leave the function, and remove the trailing "checks" btw: the * after debugfs_remove_recursive should be removed too. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/