Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: detect duplicate chip data arrays

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Oct 05 2017 - 15:54:36 EST


On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 12:46 -0700, Liam Breck wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 21:19 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 21:13 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > > > 2017-10-01 21:42 GMT+09:00 Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>:
> > > > > > > This semantic patch detects duplicate arrays declared using BQ27XXX_DATA
> > > > > > > within a single structure. It is currently specific to the file
> > > > > > > drivers/power/supply/bq27xxx_battery.c.
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Applied to linux-kbuild/misc.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for picking it up.
> > > >
> > > > If it is specific to one file, why not just run it
> > > > and post the resultant patch? Why have it in tree?
> > >
> > > I guess that they anticipate that the data may change in the future?
> >
> > Aren't you the script author Julia? Who is the "they"?
> >
> > I think having a script for a single file unnecessary.
>
> Sebastian Reichel, the power-supply maintainer, requested this script.
> I previously implemented this as a run-time check within ifdef DEBUG,
> but that was rejected.

Hi Liam.

If you are the author of the script, you should also have
a sign-off/from here right?

This also has a copyright of Inria and Julia Lawall
which, if you are the author, doesn't seem appropriate.

cheers, Joe