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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

