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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] spi: Add helper functions for setting up transfers
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

> On 01/10/2013 09:53 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >> +@r1@
> >> +identifier fn;
> >> +identifier xfers;
> >> +@@
> >> +fn(...)
> >> +{
> >> + ...
> >> +(
> >> + struct spi_transfer xfers[...];
> >> +|
> >> + struct spi_transfer xfers[];
> >> +)
> >> + ...
> >> +}
> >
> > Can it happen that there would be more than one spi_transfer or spi_message
> > variable per function? This semantic patch will only treat the case where
> > there is only one, because the ... before an after the variable declaration
> > won't match another declaration of the same form.
> >
> > julia
>
> I guess it could happen, but I would consider it to be very rare. There are
> a few examples of multiple transfers in the kernel. But most of them look like
>
> struct spi_message msg;
> struct spi_transfer xfer_foo;
> struct spi_transfer xfer_bar;
>
> ...
> spi_message_add_tail(&xfer_foo, &msg);
> spi_message_add_tail(&xfer_bar, &msg);
>
> So the transformation can't be applied here anyway.
>
> Do you have an idea how to change the rule to work with multiple
> transfers/messages per function? If it would make the cocci file more
> complex I wouldn't bother to take care of it, since it basically has no
> practical use.

Probably the simplest thing is to put when any on all of the ...s
It might get slower, though.

Alternatively you could have a rule at the end that prints a warning for
any cases that are not transformed.

julia


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