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From:   Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] coccinelle: suggest replacing strncpy+truncation by
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Julia Lawall wrote on Fri, Jul 20, 2018:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> > I guess there is no value in the script landing first by itself, I'll
> > just remove the script path from the commit messages and resend the
> > first few this weekend.
> 
> It's not that there is no value to the script.  The problem is that I
> don't know if the script is correct - I'm not familiar with these string
> functions.  Once the script is in the kernel, it stays there beyond your
> patches, so I would prefer to know that it is correct up front, rather
> than having to remove it afterwards.

I understand, I didn't say there is no value in the script ("landing
first by itself" doesn't mean it should/can not be taken later)

I'll bump this thread again in a couple of weeks after having resent
most of the other patches

-- 
Dominique Martinet