linux-kernel - Re: [v2] Documentation: Coccinelle: fix typos and command example

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Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 07:40:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [v2] Documentation: Coccinelle: fix typos and command example



On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:52:58AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 7/1/20 6:32 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > >>> How do you think about to use the following command variant
> > >>> for the adjustment of the software documentation?
> > >>>
> > >>> +    make C=1 CHECK='scripts/coccicheck' 'path/to/file.o'
> > >>
> > >> I don't understand the reason for that change...
> >
> > IOW, your "patch" needs justification and/or explanation. It was missing that info.
>
> What Markus is trying so completely ineptly to say is that
>   make C=1 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck path/to/file.c
> doesn't work.  You need to use the .o suffix to check the .c file.

Thanks Matthew for this very helpful information.

julia