Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: detect unnecessary le16_to_cpu

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On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here is a revised version (not a patch because it doesn't support all of
> the various modes) and the results.  It doesn't return anything beyond
> what was mentioned in previous mails.
>
> For the following code:
>
>         ret = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(chip->client, reg << 1);
>         val[0] = (u16)ret & 0xFF;
>         val[1] = (u16)ret >> 8;
>
> do we want to see:
>
> put_unaligned(val,i2c_smbus_read_word_data(chip->client, reg << 1));

If and only if the type of the pointer is a byte type (u8 *, char *,
or alike) _and_ we try to use it as a provider for 16-bit value (2
bytes).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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