Re: [PATCH] scripts: add dummy report mode to add_namespace.cocci

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 6/4/20 1:31 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Matthias Maennich wrote:
> 
>> When running `make coccicheck` in report mode using the
>> add_namespace.cocci file, it will fail for files that contain
>> MODULE_LICENSE. Those match the replacement precondition, but spatch
>> errors out as virtual.ns is not set.
>>
>> In order to fix that, add the virtual rule nsdeps and only do search and
>> replace if that rule has been explicitly requested.
>>
>> In order to make spatch happy in report mode, we also need a dummy rule,
>> as otherwise it errors out with "No rules apply". Using a script:python
>> rule appears unrelated and odd, but this is the shortest I could come up
>> with.
>>
>> Adjust scripts/nsdeps accordingly to set the nsdeps rule when run trough
>> `make nsdeps`.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
>> Fixes: c7c4e29fb5a4 ("scripts: add_namespace: Fix coccicheck failed")
>> Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
>> Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
>> Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
> 
> Shuah reported the problem to me, so you could add
> 
> Reported-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> 

Very cool. No errors with this patch. Thanks for fixing it
quickly.

thanks,
-- Shuah