Re: [PATCH] coccicheck: Allow for overriding spatch flags

[Deepa Dinamani]

>> >> Documentation/coccinelle.txt suggests using the SPFLAGS
>> >> make variable to pass additional options to spatch.
>> >>
>> >> Reorder the way SPFLAGS is added to FLAGS, to allow
>> >> for options in the SPFLAGS to override the default
>> >> --very-quiet option.
>> >>
>> >> Similarly, rearrage the FLAGS for org or report mode.
>> >> This allows for overriding of the default --no-show-diff
>> >> option through SPFLAGS.
>> >
>> > The first looks like a good idea, but do you find a use case for the
>> > second?  The diff that is shown in org or report mode may be sort of
>> > random.  It is just an easy hack to reuse the same pattern code for
>> > context, org, and report modes, but there isn't an intent to see the diff
>> > produced by context mode in org or report mode.
>>
>> I thought this at first, that org report mode wouldn't need it the diff.
>> But if a user wishes to override the option, then why should we not
>> accept that the user knows what they are doing?
>
> I guess... Another issue is that the org/report mode output comes from
> python, and the diff output comes from ocaml.  They are not synchronized.
> Ie, the report won't come out next to the relevant diff.

Ok. I was just thinking of user as the final authority because I was
trying to get more
debug output for my script. And, yes I only wanted to override the --very-quiet.
I just thought since --no-show-diff was a similar issue, it would be
good to do the
same thing here.

Let me know if you want me to leave out the second rearrange and submit a v2.

-Deepa