[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: qcom: change PTR_ERR argument

[Julia Lawall]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:05:10PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Apply PTR_ERR to the value that was recently assigned.
> >
> > The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> I have no idea what's going on with this stuff without spending more
> time than it looks like should need, there's a moderately big thread and
> some patches posted in the middle of it.  Can you repost whatever the
> current state is please?

The discussion was about introducing a temporary variable to simplify the
code.  But that makes a lot of changes, so I think it would be better to
just apply the original bug fixing patch as is, and then the cleanup could
be applied on top of that.  I will submit the original patch again.

julia