linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs

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Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:02:58 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>> But if we can teach checkpatch to read the rule files, then maybe that
>> would be beneficial.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> The problem is Perl doesn't really understand C, while Coccinelle does.

It would be nice if Coccinelle would be even more easy to setup and
use during development. Like with Dave, Coccinelle has been on my todo
list forever.
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