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From: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:22:56 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccicheck: use $KBUILD_EXTMOD when available
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To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com>, Kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>, Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>, cocci@diku.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Hi,

On Wednesday 07 July 2010 13:04:36 Michal Marek wrote:
> On 3.7.2010 21:49, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Saturday 03 July 2010 17:20:34 Kulikov Vasiliy wrote:
> >> Use $KBUILD_EXTMOD instead of $srctree when the latter is not null
> >> to use make M=somedir.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  scripts/coccicheck |    8 +++++++-
> >>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
> >> index b8bcf1f..7d66a55 100755
> >> --- a/scripts/coccicheck
> >> +++ b/scripts/coccicheck
> >> @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
> >>  #!/bin/sh
> >>  
> >> +if [ -n "$KBUILD_EXTMOD" ]; then
> >> +	CHECK_DIR="$KBUILD_EXTMOD"
> >> +else
> >> +	CHECK_DIR="$srctree"
> >> +fi
> >> +
> >>  SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`"
> >>  
> >>  if [ "$C" = "1" -o "$C" = "2" ]; then
> >> @@ -64,7 +70,7 @@ coccinelle () {
> >>  	echo ' http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/'
> >>  	echo ''
> >>  
> >> -	$SPATCH -D $MODE $FLAGS -sp_file $COCCI $OPT -dir $srctree || exit 1
> >> +	$SPATCH -D $MODE $FLAGS -sp_file $COCCI $OPT -dir $CHECK_DIR || exit 1
> >>      else
> >>  	$SPATCH -D $MODE $FLAGS -sp_file $COCCI $OPT $OPTIONS || exit 1
> >>      fi
> >>
> > 
> > In doing so, the output of the patch mode will produce patches relative to $KBUILD_EXTMOD.
> > I am not sure of what most of developers want but if the patches must be relative to
> > the Linux kernel root, the following patch must be used.
> 
> If you are checking your out-of-tree module, then you're probably not
> going to send the resulting patch to lkml.
> 

Indeed. I thus acked the original patch last Monday [1].

Thanks.

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/5/136

> Michal
> 

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