Message-ID: <1403195662.7875.5.camel@joe-AO725>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle: Script to drop parenthesis in the return
 statements
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>, Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
        cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        benoit.taine@lip6.fr
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:34:22 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20140619162954.GA4698@himangi-Dell>
References: <20140619162954.GA4698@himangi-Dell>
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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.


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