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Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 16:46:50 +0800
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Subject: Re: drm/amdgpu: remove the redundant null check
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On 2019/9/5 16:38, Markus Elfring wrote:
>>> Were any source code analysis tools involved for finding
>>> these update candidates?
>> With the help of Coccinelle. You can find out some example in scripts/coccinelle/.
> Thanks for such background information.
> Was the script “ifnullfree.cocci” applied here?
Yep
> Will it be helpful to add attribution for such tools
> to any more descriptions in your patches?
Sometimes, I will add the description in my patches. Not always.

Thanks,
zhong jiang
> Regards,
> Markus
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