Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] treewide: Use 'sizeof(x)' instead of 'sizeof x' | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 02 Feb 2016 05:58:56 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 12:28 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: > > > If anyone feels strongly about accepting such patches, then the right solution > > is to create a Coccinelle semantic patch to run over the whole kernel and get > > over with the churn once and for all. > > So applying a semantic patch like this to all .c files: > > @@ expression E; @@ > -sizeof E > +sizeof(E) > @@ expression E2; @@ > -sizeof((E2)) > +sizeof(E2) > > Produces the single patch below for the whole kernel - instead of generating a > churn of 1,000+ patches ...
If this isn't a joke, a nicer way to submit this is by subsystem and not as a single huge patch.
This allows subsystem maintainers to reduce patch contention as this patch already doesn't apply to -next.
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