Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:49:19 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Julia Lawall <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle: Script to drop parenthesis in the return statements |
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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?
julia
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