Re: Rename the SmPL script âkzalloc-â.cocciâ?
From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Tue Jan 02 2018 - 10:01:17 EST
>> * I am unsure which name will be better finally.
>> Would we like to achieve another permalink here?
>
> Actually, according to th original name choice it is stillsimple,
The involved contributors have got different views if the available script
remains âsimpleâ enough at the moment.
> becaue it doesn't account for the possibility of many statement between
> the alloc and the memset
* How close should these function call be kept together?
* Which additional statements would you tolerate between them?
> and it doesn't account for different ways of expressing the size between
> the two calls.
Would you like to get any extensions there?
> If you want to be more general than kzalloc, then perhaps
> zalloc-simple.cocci would be ok.
Will other suffixes be safer for a permanent file name so that confusion
could be avoided around different expectations for âsimplicityâ?
Regards,
Markus