linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] coccicheck: refer to coccicheck bottest wiki for documentation

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2016 02:07:30 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	"Nicolas Palix (LIG)" <Nicolas.Palix@...g.fr>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Gilles.Muller@...6.fr,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] coccicheck: refer to coccicheck bottest wiki for
 documentation

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Nicolas Palix (LIG) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Le 21/06/16 à 21:21, Luis R. Rodriguez a écrit :
> > > Sprinkling *tons* of documentation on the script is not a good
> > > idea, instead refer to a wiki for further coccicheck documentation:
> > > 
> > > https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck
> > > 
> > > This page shall always refer to the linux-next iteration of
> > > scripts/coccicheck.
> > 
> > Can you say a word about Documentation/coccinelle.txt too ?
> > And update it according to the script changes.
> 
> I think this would be a good idea.

I'd much prefer to just keep docs in a wiki, and we nuke this outdated doc or
refer in the Documentation/coccinelle.txt to the wiki. This lets us document
things much faster and lets us add more information in a much nicer format. But
that's just me...

The existing file Documentation/coccinelle.txt even provides documentation on
how to build coccinelle --we're way passed that point. Note, I havne't
updated the docs on the wiki to refer to any of this, and would not unless
these changes get merged at least to linux-next.

  Luis