Re: [Outreachy] Coccicheck in drivers/staging/

[Emily Peri <eperi1024@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:39:23AM -0700, Alison Schofield wrote:
> I took a peek at drivers/staging to see what you all may discover
> when running Coccicheck.
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> I simply used the Fedora pkg mgr.
> $ sudo dnf install coccinelle
> (That got me coccinelle 1.1.1-5.fc36)
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> $ sudo dnf builddep coccinelle
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> From root of my kernel tree:
> $  make coccicheck M=drivers/staging/ | grep -i warning
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> That showed many places to drill down further and cleanup.
> 

Thank you for explaining this! 

Since we are getting close to the Outreachy application deadline and
several of us have completed the First Patch Tutorial, is there any more
description of what an internship with this project will look like? Have
interns worked on coccinelle in the past, and what kind of impact did
they have?

Two areas that I think could use updates are the website and
documentation. If this is a project that will take on future Outreachy
applicants, I think it would be very useful to create coccinelle
instructions/tutorial for Outreachy. Are these ideas within the scope of
the internship?

Thanks so much for making this internship possible in the first, I
understand its a lot effort on top of everything else that you do!

Emily

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