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

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:24:03PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hej Nicolas.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:11:16PM +0200, Nicolas Palix wrote:
> > Four targets are added. Each one generates a different
> > output kind: context, patch, org, report.
> > Every SmPL file in 'scripts/smpl' is given to the spatch frontend
> > (located in the 'scripts' directory), and applied to the entire
> > source tree.
> 
> For outsiders smpl does not rellate to coccinelle.
> 
> I suggest to consistently use the name of the tool in all places.
> 
> So smpl directory to be named coccinelle
> SPATCH named coccinelle
> spatch.sh named coccinelle.sh
> etc.
> 
> This way we use one name for one thing. And not today where you
> use three names for the same thing.
> The files may be named *.smpl - because their home in
> 
>     scripts/coccinelle/
> 
> will tell what they are used for.

Looking again they are named *.cocci. So I confused myself on the smpl thing.
The point above consistent naming still holds.

	Sam
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