Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: check for propagation of error from platform_get_irq

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sat Dec 26 2015 - 15:38:32 EST




On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> On 12/26/2015 11:24 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> > The conclusion seems to be that it is useful to override the value, so we
> > can just drop this semantic patch.
>
> No! As I said, unconditionally overriding an error value breaks the
> deferred probing. It's actually a bug to override it, so the patch seems
> *very* useful.

Ah, OK, I'll send an improved version then :)

julia
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