linux-kernel - Re: [v2] Coccinelle: Suppression of warnings?

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Message-ID: <eb95005d-e685-0a8f-416c-1a30ad3fbaa0@web.de>
Date:   Mon, 1 Jul 2019 14:40:43 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Enrico Weigelt <lkml@...ux.net>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Ding Xiang <dingxiang@...s.chinamobile.com>,
        Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v2] Coccinelle: Suppression of warnings?

> By the way: do we have any mechanism for explicitly suppressing
> individual warnings (some kind of annotation),

I do not know such an accepted specification interface
(for the handling together with SmPL scripts) so far.
How would you identify possibly unwanted messages in a safe way?


> when the maintainer is sure that some particular case is a false-positive ?

Do you know any specific source code places already where you would get
concerned about the confidence and relevance of the provided information?

Regards,
Markus