linux-kernel - Re: SmPL scripts into build environment?

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:22:56 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Németh Márton <nm127@...email.hu>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de,
	adi@...apodia.org, david.vrabel@....com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...u.dk,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nicolas Palix <npalix@...u.dk>
Subject: Re: SmPL scripts into build environment?

> Documentation/smpl/$name_of_problem_fixed.cocci? Or maybe better
> scripts/smlp/..., if you are going to add some wrapper that runs the
> semantic patches on the source tree. Or something like that, a dedicated
> subdirectory to store the semantic patches in individual files.

The idea is to make it possible to run them, assuming the user has 
installed Coccinelle, so scripts seems better.

> > What do you think the best way would be to introduce some check like this
> > in the build environment?
> 
> I've only heard about the tool, I haven't used it yet. Does it need to
> preprocess and parse source files like sparse does, or can it check C
> files without expanding macros and includes?

It doesn't need to preprocess the source files.

thanks,
julia
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