On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Julia Lawall wrote: > Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized before > any possible use. Thus, the static has no benefit. > > The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // <smpl> > @bad exists@ > position p; > identifier x; > type T; > @@ > static T x@p; > ... > x = <+...x...+> > > @@ > identifier x; > expression e; > type T; > position p != bad.p; > @@ > -static > T x@p; > ... when != x > when strict > ?x = e; > // </smpl> > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> > > --- > These patches are all independent of each other. > > drivers/mfd/max8925-i2c.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied, thanks. > diff -u -p a/drivers/mfd/max8925-i2c.c b/drivers/mfd/max8925-i2c.c > --- a/drivers/mfd/max8925-i2c.c > +++ b/drivers/mfd/max8925-i2c.c > @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static int max8925_probe(struct i2c_clie > const struct i2c_device_id *id) > { > struct max8925_platform_data *pdata = dev_get_platdata(&client->dev); > - static struct max8925_chip *chip; > + struct max8925_chip *chip; > struct device_node *node = client->dev.of_node; > > if (node && !pdata) { > -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- 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
