These patches delete declarations and initializations of variables that are only assigned to constants but never used otherwise. The complete semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r exists@ type T; identifier i,i2; position p; @@ T i@p; ... i = i2 @@ type r.T; identifier r.i; constant c; position p != r.p; @@ -T i@p; <... when != i -i = c; ...> // </smpl> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html