Re: [PATCH] Configuring COCCI parameter as a directory is supportted

[Julia Lawall]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, zhongshiqi wrote:

> This patch puts a modification in scripts/coccicheck which supports users
> in configuring COCCI parameter as a directory to traverse files in
> directory.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhongshiqi <zhong.shiqi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/coccicheck | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
> index e04d328..a1c4197 100755
> --- a/scripts/coccicheck
> +++ b/scripts/coccicheck
> @@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ if [ "$COCCI" = "" ] ; then
>      for f in `find $srctree/scripts/coccinelle/ -name '*.cocci' -type f | sort`; do
>  	coccinelle $f
>      done
> +elif [ -d "$COCCI" ] ; then
> +    for f in `find $COCCI/ -name '*.cocci' -type f | sort`; do
> +	coccinelle $f
> +    done
>  else
>      coccinelle $COCCI
>  fi

Thanks for the contribution.  I'm not that knowledgeable about these
scripts.  What is the relation between the last two if branches?  If the
first one fails, does that mean that $COCCI has no definition?  In that
case, is the final else useful?

thanks,
julia