Re: [Outreachy] Coccicheck in drivers/staging/

[Emily Peri <eperi1024@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 01:36:08PM -0700, Alison Schofield wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:36:40PM -0700, Emily Peri wrote:
> > 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.
> > > 
> > > I simply used the Fedora pkg mgr.
> > > $ sudo dnf install coccinelle
> > > (That got me coccinelle 1.1.1-5.fc36)
> > > 
> > > $ sudo dnf builddep coccinelle
> > > 
> > > From root of my kernel tree:
> > > $  make coccicheck M=drivers/staging/ | grep -i warning
> > > 
> > > 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?
> 
> Coccinelle, and improving Coccinelle itself, has been the topic
> of many past internships. Julia Lawall, who has been commenting
> on you patches is the creator of Coccinelle has mentored interns
> in developing new support in the Coccinelle tool - for the
> Linux Kernel.
> 
> The project this round is labelled as 'Coccinelle cleanups in
> the Linux Kernel' Of course, the selected intern(s) may take
> it further than that and improve Coccinelle itself. Ones you
> get into it, you follow the work!

Sounds good! Speaking for myself, I want to do what is most useful, but
I'm also hoping to learn some new skills in the process.

> I'll let this round Coccinelle mentors, Saurabh and Praveen,
> fill in more about there plans
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Improving the documentation along the way is always welcome. 
> 
> > 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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> > > 
> > > 
> > >