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On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >>   This issue was detected also by using the Coccinelle software.
> >
> > Do you have the scripts you use published somewhere?
>
> I would like to add another view for the corresponding software development.
>
> The complete answer depends also on the kind of "scripts"
> you are looking for. Would you like to clarify any details
> a bit more here?

I imagine that she is asking for:

@@
expression e1,e2,e3;
@@

- kmalloc(e1 * e2, e3)
+ kmalloc_array(e1, e2, e3)

Or some close variant.  It seems pretty straightforward to provide and
can help orient the reader to what is going on.

julia