Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add targets to use the Coccinelle checker

[Joerg Roedel]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:42:30PM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> >Four targets are added. Each one generates a different
> >output kind: context, patch, org, report.
> >Every SmPL file in 'scripts/coccinelle' is given to the spatch frontend
> >(located in the 'scripts' directory), and applied to the entire
> >source tree.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@xxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> This is great!

Totally agreed.

> I would like to see coccinelle to be integrated with kbuild, but the
> name 'coccicheck' is really confusing, how about 'sema_check'? Which
> means 'semantic check'.

I think its okay to keep coccicheck because its the name of the tool
called. We do the same with 'make cscope'.
But since I am a bit lazy I would prefer a shorter name, probably just
'make cocci'?

> Or we can use something like for sparse, i.e. 'make C=1' etc..

Yes, this would also make sense. As a developer I could add this and
only the code I changed is checked.

	Joerg

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