linux-kernel - Re: How to get the coccicheck error from patch

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1601121802420.2042@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:05:32 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
cc:	Nicolas.Palix@...g.fr, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to get the coccicheck error from patch



On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Laxman Dewangan wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday 12 January 2016 09:59 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > 
> > > Nicolas,
> > > 
> > > When I run the commands coccicheck for the file with of_table.cocci, it
> > > reports error as:
> > > 
> > > spatch --sp-file ./scripts/coccinelle/misc/of_table.cocci
> > > drivers/rtc/rtc-max77xxx.c --o tmp.cinit_defs_builtins:
> > > /usr/share/coccinelle/standard.h
> > > Fatal error: exception Failure("unexpected struct/union type name")
> > > 
> > > ldewangan@...wanganubuntu-System-Product-Name:~/upstream/linux-next/linux-next$
> > > spatch -D report --very-quiet --no-show-diff --cocci-file
> > > ./scripts/coccinelle/misc/of_table.cocci drivers/rtc/rtc-max77xxx.c
> > > 
> > > Fatal error: exception Failure("unexpected struct/union type name")
> > Hmm, actually, it might be your version of Coccinelle.  What version are
> > you using?  The latest is 1.0.4, which you can get from github.
> > 
> > julia
> > 
> 
> I have following version for ubuntu.
> spatch --version
> spatch version 1.0.0-rc10 with Python support and with PCRE support

This is very, very old.  Try installing the version from github (1.0.4).

Another possibility is: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coccinelle

julia

> ldewangan@...wanganubuntu-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get install
> coccinelle
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> coccinelle is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 753 not upgraded.
> ldewangan@...wanganubuntu-System-Product-Name:~$
> 
> 
> 
> The page is not accessible.
> http://cocci.ekstranet.diku.dk/wiki/doku.php
> 
> I got the coccinellery from git hub
> 
> git clone https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinellery.git
> 
> 
> Now how do I build for ubuntu and install it?
> 
> Per documentation, it is
> ./cofigure
> make
> 
> 
> But I did not see this.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>