Re: [PATCH] sysctl.c: Change a .proc_handler = proc_dointvec to &proc_dointvec,

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 21:40 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 19:20 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > Searching for things that are declared as functions (either a definition 
> > > or a prototype), and then referenced as &f gives over 2000 results in 
> > > almost 600 files.
> > Just curious, do you know how many are referenced
> > without the &?
> I got over 95000 (not checked in detail, though).

Thanks.

I think that ~25+:1 ratio makes a good case for an
eventual conversion of the remaining uses.

> > If what is desired is kernel wide consistent use, yes.
> > What I would like is file/subsystem consistent use.
> > 
> > Looking at sysctl.c and seeing that different use
> > stand out was odd.
> 
> It would be possible to count the number of occurrences in a given file, 
> and then change the ones that have the less popular format, or a format 
> that occurs less than some percentage of time.

Maybe it'd be useful to add a coccinelle/spatch
directory in scripts and add these scripts so
that files and subsystems can updated over time.

I can not find a directory of coccinelle input
scripts for linux at:
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/download.php
Is there a list somewhere?

Perhaps add a checkpatch test as well though
that might be an interesting test to write in
perl.