Category: Linux

Staging: slicoss: clean dev_err logging

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch removes __func__ from dev_err. dev_err includes information about: (devcice, driver, specific instance of device, etc) in the log printout. This was done using Coccinelle, with the following semantic patch: @a@ expression E, R; expression msg; @@ dev_err(E, msg, __func__, R); @script:python b@ e

Staging: iio: clean dev_err logging

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch removes __func__ from dev_err. dev_err includes information about: (devcice, driver, specific instance of device, etc) in the log printout. This was done using Coccinelle, with the following semantic patch: @a@ expression E, R; expression msg; @@ dev_err(E, msg, __func__, R); @script:python b@ e

Staging: rts5208: clean dev_err logging

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch removes __func__ from dev_err. dev_err includes information about: (devcice, driver, specific instance of device, etc) in the log printout. This was done using Coccinelle, with the following semantic patch: @a@ expression E, R; expression msg; @@ dev_err(E, msg, __func__, R); @script:python b@ e

Staging: comedi: clean dev_err logging

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch removes __func__ from dev_err. dev_err includes information about: (devcice, driver, specific instance of device, etc) in the log printout. This was done using Coccinelle, with the following semantic patch: @a@ expression E, R; expression msg; @@ dev_err(E, msg, __func__, R); @script:python b@ e

Staging: gdm72xx: clean dev_err logging

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch removes __func__ from dev_err. dev_err includes information about: (devcice, driver, specific instance of device, etc) in the log printout. This was done using Coccinelle, with the following semantic patch: @a@ expression E, R; expression msg; @@ dev_err(E, msg, __func__, R); @script:python b@ e

Staging: media: clean dev_err logging

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch removes __func__ from dev_err. dev_err includes information about: (devcice, driver, specific instance of device, etc) in the log printout. This was done using Coccinelle, with the following semantic patch: @a@ expression E, R; expression msg; @@ dev_err(E, msg, __func__, R); @script:python b@ e

Staging: fbtft: clean dev_err() logging

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch removes __func__ from dev_err. dev_err includes information about: (devcice, driver, specific instance of device, etc) in the log printout. This was done using Coccinelle, with the following semantic patch: @a@ expression E, R; expression msg; @@ dev_err(E, msg, __func__, R); @script:python b@ e

Staging: media: Replace dev_err with pr_err to avoid null pointer derefrence

Author: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com> This patch replace dev_err with pr_err, for pointer is derefrenced after comparing it to NULL. This was found using the following coccinelle script: @disable is_null@ identifier f; expression E; identifier fld; statement S; @@ + if(E == NULL) S f(…,E->fld,…); -if(E == NULL) S; @@ identifier f; expression E; identifier fld; …

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Staging: rtl8192u: Convert use of __constant_ to

Author: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com> Using functions of the form __constant_ isn’t preferred outside of include/uapi/ as using the function without __constant_ is identical when the argument is a constant. So, this patch replaces __constant_htons with htons. This is done using Coccinelle and semantic patch used for this is as follows: @@identifier x;@@ ( – __constant_htons(x) …

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Staging: rtl8712: Eliminate use of _cancel_timer_ex

Author: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com> Use timer API function del_timer_sync instead of driver specific function _cancel_timer_ex as besides deactivating a timer, it ensures that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before the driver exists. Also, definition of function _cancel_timer_ex is removed as it is no longer needed after this change. This is done using Coccinelle …

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