Re: [PATCH *-next 00/18] Remove weird and needless 'return' for void APIs

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Fri Feb 21 2025 - 14:37:27 EST


On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 11:00 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Is this something that could be done with a coccinelle script?
>

Almost enough to do this:

@@
identifier fn;
expression E;
@@
void fn(...)
{
...
-return
E;
}


It takes a long time to run though, and does some wrong things as well:
if the return is in the middle of the function, it still matches and
removes it erroneously.

johannes