linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker

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Message-ID: <20100512064230.GC5718@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 May 2010 14:42:30 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Nicolas Palix <npalix@...u.dk>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	cocci@...u.dk, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
	Kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
>Four targets are added. Each one generates a different
>output kind: context, patch, org, report.
>Every SmPL file in 'scripts/coccinelle' is given to the spatch frontend
>(located in the 'scripts' directory), and applied to the entire
>source tree.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@...u.dk>
>Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Hi,

This is great! I would like to see coccinelle to be integrated with kbuild,
but the name 'coccicheck' is really confusing, how about 'sema_check'? Which
means 'semantic check'.

Or we can use something like for sparse, i.e. 'make C=1' etc..

Thanks!

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