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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:9LNEizQ2clxvfWWQdpZe1VFLV2jQrBCIvewuRxWmh8LctzB6RW3 tQXBeNI/JAXr/5mX40qGXqU4JaMsM8ctXSNU12i3u87Mc3pM1LWRdPHwDjnpBLg/9GS2LtL O/x4j9kPphMGi7I4VlbspWlw9NF/HyLoCITfRdqo1WKmNrDQ9vU2xxThB25RvzcZOxEYJJ1 nC2VEakr7sJy7dnzZgKRQ== X-Spam-Flag: NO UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:DU4gnxnkiRo=;sXvtjMmjVszrThb0iCyBmFJUlQJ f06t+T3zG3C30VHEzr4Xc+B1PMcFH3/brZUB96xwqq5zMF9HZ7MaV0BBlPK3ijIWDs5Dl0pAM Zml5EXwiAm58uWb5Q1NKGJIBKnw4kTsu5TkoXzbZr8gOi98HV4wN3XFdR7z/TeDGBlUVlw6L9 S8CIy/gOfGvXjS7lwuNcxKoE2b60zI08bu7JOwMQeJVneShdOBi08P2/XavFmOsUfGwkswR8S EqPKGNF9QEFSfBd4EoGbKkGzD9LTvKOoZbxJpH2rSrRYhg/W/bEcJDq1uBVSPQ1/Egk9E5Fw5 CsZkNkn44F1fiBu48BptEaJcvIXgsf22t1FvHNc0VB7vvUUtau1CL7PjvtOYmwx9oRp2C1+7f kTFw1P9uoHItjhnTI/t5T7J4t2PXedLlqKNESrPZfnlP6glUmGBbEUjxv502ZXUFvgSpjn/T2 8s3BnyHMs6q6vOf5b8znJ43xbvxsR/8+hYqYRX9KQQhn4rIkSSnelZHit1Ih6g5IGpv15a/c0 EN5fXVKzo0B4T7j82LpKJMXv9keTba78b3jvgUpm0Y55HCEz2ItxWW7ByZHn9tGbpn9+tZin7 m71uES0s0GhYMRdUaaVr+3iJliUjPW48E+eNSs3xErytatz4Hh//zcEkksBvucKP9bpO59d93 Pf8POMr2Wi6VxQj9IqLBV4+634lOJxab5JPvlHm7S9TdBW/fvJS2qaabhxOJXkmLs/OEwG8hj w3P4EqYzOo3sACbBQEsxPxpkr5K9yOjNxK0k+34oi7ibmF3ejJKboOPTGFJM/nF2Ek07QTfEw V1SkXdXfyIi96TK3fdCzn0cNqiWoPpgo0MymBpBUg671NZjK5PEZ3oolxNUuZJYOwJzMlFcwY oAVBPEvhqBoYPkUSfwWVoDP6t8kS0tD3UskKsupIdbN+odcon3wzdFQ4AfWm2FHZO9nzPAGGQ TrbVmAJ7QhcCtbR9nFbNk4XvC4V0b4PS1q10wJCfWr41W72cSN4YpQbDWnpLl5ptGMYrtJBKM nXgj74Vv4DG7AobpCqPjQJYxRlAEuM3xrQydl+fvHl6Um+uquGBQzp7dZd2rqLPNgC1crJXE1 viulVomotiDKkXMjQHWewVxNbPNXmGwEAAtyQRHZR7lni9tVsf75yaQ+gIyz7kWzduC6qfhQj Lnux/aCp+4mbK9SIpgWoNrxy0gwpdr6byC/q4yGUAzuryXj8RIkrO84QU3tkkLfWulRVxwDnq 1qegcpgt8lG1msOXhNC4PeWd95EDa5NrSUQ0ClHgN6UC2ab1pTfWAK3enF+xfqWRJkslA4+BW Ib3DzToyp0gxu1p/JqOOeo5yyGu2Yv4PL1Z5SU7u0xowCQ3lTD5nwP8xQszgxeYC1FTyWAIvo mqZ+cbsxD5T6sM58ySjX+c+WQ4jiJPDWTdfJKzCHxpOMHhBqUCg1ejN/L0eWyc/6aX84DyT7f vxsAHTLjU2bMfWc5jH4R0iEOVQfs= Hello, Various source code was assigned to functions (or function-like macros). Common functionality is stored at selected places. Thus there is a desire to increase the corresponding usage. Some scripts were constructed also according to the means of the semantic patch language. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst?h=v6.14-rc3#n71 It can be seen that some of these SmPL scripts share also program structures. * Operation modes need to be determined. * Special source code items should be detected somehow. * Data output should be provided. Would you be looking for the support of higher level structures for coccicheck scripts? Is there a need for placeholders (or variables) which could be filled from other advanced information sources so that selected data processing will eventually not be mapped to separate SmPL script files to achieve more desirable transformations? Regards, Markus