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Message-ID: <970643a9-5f19-29ee-dde6-5b81c9038a04@web.de>
Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 09:40:44 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Cc:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] coccinelle: platform_get_irq: Fix parse error

>> I proposed something also during the development for this SmPL script.
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/24/274
>> https://lore.kernel.org/r/c98b8f50-1adf-ea95-a91c-ec451e9fefe2@web.de/
>
> Markus,
>
> This is not the first time you have suggested to someone to do something
> that was simply incorrect.

We come along different application expectations.


> Please actually test your suggestions before proposing them.

I dare to express also “questionable” development ideas.


>> Should disjunctions eventually work in the semantic patch language also together with
>> comparison operators?
>> https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/issues/40
>
> No.

Can a similar effect be achieved by using a SmPL constraint for
a metavariable of the type “binary operator”?
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/b4509f6e7fb06d5616bb19dd5a110b203fd0e566/docs/manual/cocci_syntax.tex#L266


>> Will any additional software adjustments be taken into account?
>
> No.

I imagine that this view can change over time according to remaining feature requests.

Regards,
Markus