Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH 00/10] staging: iio: Remove exceptional & on functions name

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, simran singhal wrote:
> >
> >> This patch-series removes exceptional & on functions name.
> >
> > The semantic patch shown does nothing to check that the use of & is
> > exception in the given file.  It just removes all the & on function names.
> >
> yes, I used this semantic patch only for only finding the functions with &
> and then I find out this drivers and use semantic patch for removing &.

The commit message should be written with respect to what was actually
done, and not copied from a patch that actually did something else.  The
original semantic patch, that was probably only put in the cover letter,
actually checked if the file mostly used function pointers in a particular
way.

julia

>
> > julia
> >
> >>
> >> simran singhal (10):
> >>   staging: iio: ad7192: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: ad7780: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: cdc: ad7746: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: cdc: ad7152: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: adis16240: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: adis16201: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: adis16209: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: adis16203: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: resolver: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>   staging: iio: gyro: Remove exceptional & on function name
> >>
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16201.c     |  4 ++--
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203.c     |  4 ++--
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16209.c     |  4 ++--
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16240.c     |  4 ++--
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7192.c          | 12 ++++++------
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7780.c          |  2 +-
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7152.c          |  6 +++---
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7746.c          |  4 ++--
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/gyro/adis16060_core.c |  2 +-
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1200.c   |  2 +-
> >>  drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c     |  2 +-
> >>  11 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >>
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