linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add a Coccinelle front-end script

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Date:	Fri, 28 May 2010 09:09:21 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
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 0/4] Add a Coccinelle front-end script

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:24:23PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> Three semantic patches, with a low rate of false positives, are also
> included.

Is there a way to annotate false positives so that they do not produce
warnings over and over?

> Other semantic patches will be provided later. Note that a semantic
> patch does not need to define all four modes. As many semantic patches
> may be proposed later, they are organized under sub-directories of
> 'scripts/coccinelle/'.

Don't know how complex the coccinelle software itself is, but I think it
would make sense to ship it with the kernel-sources too. That together
with a README and everything is perfect :-)
Thanks for the great work, this should definitly be upstream.

	Joerg

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