On Sun, 7 Nov 2021, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > Because a lot of the changes there are mechanistic, I thought it would be a
> > good idea to perform them via coccinelle semantic patch. But it's my first
> > attempt at large real usage of spatch, and it probably shows.
>
> I guess that your clarification request will trigger further collateral
> evolution.
> Thus I suggest to reconsider also another commit message from your software
> development branch accordingly.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git/commit/?h=slab-struct_slab-v1r8&id=8a685ebb3b2a10c1d781d5b3e6ad0315ce9323d6
>
> “This patch splits several declarations of multiple variables, or declarations
> that include initial assignments, to separate lines, due to my inability to
> make a coccinelle semantic patch match on those declarations.”
>
> * How do you think about to specify desirable change preparations by the means
> of
>   the semantic patch language?
>
> * Will any guidance help to find nicer solutions?

Luis already proposed a perfectly reasonable solution.

julia