[Cocci] "virtual rule patch not supported"

[Brice.Goglin@inria.fr (Brice Goglin)]

Le 15/03/2013 15:49, Nicolas Palix a ?crit :
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Brice Goglin wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am running the kernel 3.9-rc2 coccicheck script on some of my module,
>>> and I get the following message:
>>>   virtual rule patch not supported
>> I guess it doesn't crash?  It is possible that some semantic patch just
>> doesn't support the patch option.  I don't remember if it is possible to
>> specify several options, and to have them tried in order?  That could be a
>> nice feature.  If not, I think that there is an option that tries all of
>> the options in a fixed order.  Nicolas?
>>
> According to the cocci files, every coccicheck mode could not be proposed.
> It is indeed some time impossible to propose a bug correction because
> several options are available for a single bug report and the semantic
> patch is not designed to choose one.
>
> The current basic modes are: patch, report, context, org
> The 'chain' mode tries the following mode is order: patch || report ||
> context || org.
> Recently, the 'rep+ctxt' mode have been added for report and context modes.
>
> If you haven't specify the mode, it defaults to chain. The patch mode
> is thus tried first.
> If it fails, coccicheck falls back to the report mode.
>

In short, this warning is harmless ?

Should it be disabled in the kernel by default ? Most people that uses
coccicheck in the kernel don't know much about it, and they don't write
the rules directly, so they may be afraid by the warning just like me.

Brice