On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:19:34PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > Anyway, I'm essentially saying that I'd like to be 100% sure we have a > > guarantee before dropping all these. > > You can not be absolutely sure. There are various implementation details > which will eventually need further considerations. Let's consider them first. We don't ship code that is missing the implementation details. (At least, we try not to!) > I hope that a reasonable confidence can be achieved here. > > > >> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. > > > > What script? > > I published scripts for static source code analysis in March 2004. I didn't ask "when?"; where? > > Hand-rolled I guess? > > An extended version found some update candidates in source files for Linux > according to the software development status of "next-20141226". > > My approach is still incomplete at the moment. Then please complete it. Thanks, Brian -- 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