Re: [v2] Documentation: Coccinelle: fix typos and command example

From: Markus Elfring
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 09:32:49 EST


>>>> We might stumble on different interpretations according to the wording âfile basisâ.
>>>> Do you find a message like âmake: Nothing to be done for 'path/to/file.c'.â interesting then?
>>>>
>>>> * Would you like to add any links for information around the support for
>>>> source code checkers?
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Makefile?id=7c30b859a947535f2213277e827d7ac7dcff9c84#n198
>> â
>>> Feel free to submit patches.
>>
>> How do you think about to use the following command variant
>> for the adjustment of the software documentation?
>>
>> + make C=1 CHECK='scripts/coccicheck' 'path/to/file.o'
>
> I don't understand the reason for that change...

Is our understanding still incomplete for the support of source code checking parameters
by the make script?

* Will software analysis be performed in addition to the desired compilation
of a source file (according to the selected object file)?

* How do you think about to trigger only the generation of analysis results
for a single file?

Regards,
Markus