Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle: Add misc/boolconv.cocci

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 06/23/2016 02:12 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 13:53 -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> Add a script to check for unneeded conversions to bool.
> 
> this could also be extended for bool functions that:
> 
> 	return !!expression;
> and
> 	return expression != 0;
> 

Agreed, it's in the works, I was going to post this current set with
some patches to the kernel that is detects, then add additional checks
and their kernel fixes incrementally.

For the second suggestion I think we could have additions to
boolinit.cocci that include the results of comparison/logical operations.

Thanks,
Andrew