From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>,
Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v3] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:03:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77906375-2d34-4861-9e17-1e61dfaaa59f@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67e28fadf4c20433c964d13d96dafe3514457656.camel@gmail.com>
>> * Do corresponding source code analysis requirements indicate a need
>> to perform data processing with other programming interfaces than regular expressions?
>
> not sure about other source code analysis tools, but checkpatch
> predominantly uses regexes
Would you become interested to discuss additional software design approaches?
>> * How do you think about to mention the possibility once more that scopes
>> can be reduced for affected local variables?
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18-rc4/source/include/linux/cleanup.h#L142-L146
>> ...
>
> The docstring talks about interdependency issues caused by assigning to
> `NULL` which are very rare
It seems that you interpret a linked information source in a special direction.
Several developers are stumbling on challenges also according to software evolution.
Regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-04 9:56 [PATCH RESEND v3] " Ally Heev
2025-11-04 13:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-11-05 6:27 ` ally heev
2025-11-05 9:18 ` Markus Elfring
2025-11-06 16:29 ` ally heev
2025-11-06 17:03 ` Markus Elfring [this message]
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