Re: thunderbolt: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "ring_free"

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 20:03 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Why not just make the static source code analysis aware of the problem?
> 
> This is also possible, of course.
> 
> 
> > You can treat static functions differently that non-static ones.
> 
> I have added this detail to my ideas around the next fine-tuning
> for the published semantic patch approach.
> 
> 
> > There is no need to change the code.
> 
> Can name space prefixes help to make source code a bit safer eventually?

Not really.
Adding prefixes can make code unnecessarily more verbose though.

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