Re: [01/16] coccinelle: misc: secs_to_jiffies: Patch expressions too

Markus Elfring
2025-02-03T07:23:12Z

> As it stands, I'll fix up the current rules in v2 following your
> suggestion to keep the multiplication in each line to allow Coccinelle
> to use the commutativity properties and find more instances.

Corresponding software development challenges can eventually be clarified further.

> I'll refrain from implementing the report mode until current instances
> have been fixed because of the issue we have already seen[1] with CI
> builds being broken. I would not want to break a strict CI build that is
> looking for coccicheck REPORT to return 0 results.

You got into the mood to test support for an information in the software documentation.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst?h=v6.13#n92
“…
Note that not all semantic patches implement all modes.
…”

Regards,
Markus