Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Coccinelle: fix typos and command example

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 09:20:55 EST


On 7/1/20 4:56 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
>>> â
>>>> +++ linux-next-20200629/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
>>> â
>>>> @@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ For example, to check drivers/net/wirele
>>>> To apply Coccinelle on a file basis, instead of a directory basis, the
>>>> following command may be used::
>>>>
>>>> - make C=1 CHECK="scripts/coccicheck"
>>>> + make C=1 CHECK="scripts/coccicheck" path/to/file.c
> â
>>> We might stumble on different interpretations according to the wording âfile basisâ.
>>> Do you find a message like âmake: Nothing to be done for 'path/to/file.c'.â interesting then?
>>>
>>> * Would you like to add any links for information around the support for
>>> source code checkers?
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Makefile?id=7c30b859a947535f2213277e827d7ac7dcff9c84#n198
> â
>> Feel free to submit patches.
>
> 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...


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~Randy