Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752832AbdHQM7N convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2017 08:59:13 -0400 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([62.4.15.54]:34298 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751578AbdHQM7K (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2017 08:59:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:58:57 +0200 From: Boris Brezillon To: Julia Lawall Cc: David Woodhouse , keescook@chromium.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Brian Norris , Marek Vasut , Richard Weinberger , Cyrille Pitchen , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] mtd: physmap_of: Drop unnecessary static Message-ID: <20170817145857.27c27585@bbrezillon> In-Reply-To: <1500149266-32357-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> References: <1500149266-32357-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1500149266-32357-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1289 Lines: 60 Le Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:07:38 +0200, Julia Lawall a écrit : > 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/) > > // > @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; > // > Applied to l2-mtd/master. Thanks, Boris > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > > --- > These patches are all independent of each other. > > drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of_versatile.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff -u -p a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of_versatile.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of_versatile.c > --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of_versatile.c > +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of_versatile.c > @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id ebi_mat > static int ap_flash_init(struct platform_device *pdev) > { > struct device_node *ebi; > - static void __iomem *ebi_base; > + void __iomem *ebi_base; > u32 val; > int ret; > >