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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	cocci@diku.dk, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	Kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:04:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100528070401.GJ1237@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100512064230.GC5718@cr0.nay.redhat.com>

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:42:30PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> >Four targets are added. Each one generates a different
> >output kind: context, patch, org, report.
> >Every SmPL file in 'scripts/coccinelle' is given to the spatch frontend
> >(located in the 'scripts' directory), and applied to the entire
> >source tree.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
> >Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> This is great!

Totally agreed.

> I would like to see coccinelle to be integrated with kbuild, but the
> name 'coccicheck' is really confusing, how about 'sema_check'? Which
> means 'semantic check'.

I think its okay to keep coccicheck because its the name of the tool
called. We do the same with 'make cscope'.
But since I am a bit lazy I would prefer a shorter name, probably just
'make cocci'?

> Or we can use something like for sparse, i.e. 'make C=1' etc..

Yes, this would also make sense. As a developer I could add this and
only the code I changed is checked.

	Joerg

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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	cocci@diku.dk, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	Kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:04:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100528070401.GJ1237@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100512064230.GC5718@cr0.nay.redhat.com>

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:42:30PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> >Four targets are added. Each one generates a different
> >output kind: context, patch, org, report.
> >Every SmPL file in 'scripts/coccinelle' is given to the spatch frontend
> >(located in the 'scripts' directory), and applied to the entire
> >source tree.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
> >Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> This is great!

Totally agreed.

> I would like to see coccinelle to be integrated with kbuild, but the
> name 'coccicheck' is really confusing, how about 'sema_check'? Which
> means 'semantic check'.

I think its okay to keep coccicheck because its the name of the tool
called. We do the same with 'make cscope'.
But since I am a bit lazy I would prefer a shorter name, probably just
'make cocci'?

> Or we can use something like for sparse, i.e. 'make C=1' etc..

Yes, this would also make sense. As a developer I could add this and
only the code I changed is checked.

	Joerg


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-28  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-10 16:19 [PATCH 0/4] Add a Coccinelle front-end script Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24 ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24   ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24   ` [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-12  6:42     ` Américo Wang
2010-05-12  6:42       ` Américo Wang
2010-05-28  7:04       ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2010-05-28  7:04         ` Joerg Roedel
2010-06-03  9:50     ` Michal Marek
2010-06-03  9:50       ` Michal Marek
2010-06-03 10:23     ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-06-03 10:23       ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-06-03 10:23       ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-06-04  9:56       ` Nicolas Palix
2010-06-04  9:56         ` Nicolas Palix
2010-06-04 10:38         ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-06-04 10:38           ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-05-10 16:24   ` [PATCH 2/4] Add scripts/coccinelle/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24   ` [PATCH 3/4] Add scripts/coccinelle/kzalloc-simple.cocci Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-06-03  9:51     ` Michal Marek
2010-06-03  9:51       ` Michal Marek
2010-06-03 10:11       ` Nicolas Palix
2010-06-03 10:11         ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24   ` [PATCH 4/4] Add scripts/coccinelle/resource_size.cocci Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:24     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-10 16:52     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-05-10 16:52       ` Pekka Enberg
2010-05-27 11:48       ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-27 11:48         ` Nicolas Palix
2010-05-11  2:14   ` [PATCH 0/4] Add a Coccinelle front-end script Andy Isaacson
2010-05-11  2:14     ` Andy Isaacson
2010-05-17  9:31     ` Wolfram Sang
2010-05-17  9:31       ` Wolfram Sang
2010-05-28  7:09   ` Joerg Roedel
2010-05-28  7:09     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-05-28  7:25     ` Wolfram Sang
2010-05-28  7:25       ` Wolfram Sang
2010-05-28  7:31       ` Julia Lawall
2010-05-28  7:31         ` Julia Lawall
2010-05-28  7:39         ` walter harms
2010-05-28  7:39           ` walter harms
2010-05-28  9:15         ` Joerg Roedel
2010-05-28  9:15           ` Joerg Roedel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-10 16:19 [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker Nicolas Palix
2010-04-26 21:11 [PATCH 0/4] Add a Coccinelle front-end script Nicolas Palix
2010-04-26 21:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker Nicolas Palix
2010-04-26 21:37   ` Joe Perches
2010-04-26 22:20     ` Nicolas Palix
2010-04-26 22:20       ` Nicolas Palix
2010-04-26 22:23       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-29 17:01         ` Roland Dreier
2010-04-30 21:07           ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-27 12:40       ` Michal Marek
2010-04-27 13:01       ` Michal Marek
2010-04-27 12:53   ` Wolfram Sang
2010-04-27 20:24   ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-04-27 20:28     ` Sam Ravnborg

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