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

[Randy Dunlap]

On 6/30/20 5:23 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
> â
>> +++ linux-next-20200629/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
> â> @@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ For example, to check drivers/net/wirele
>>  To apply Coccinelle on a file basis, instead of a directory basis, the
>>  following command may be used::
>>
>> -    make C=1 CHECK="scripts/coccicheck"
>> +    make C=1 CHECK="scripts/coccicheck" path/to/file.c
> 
> I would like to clarify further software design aspects around such make functionality.
> 
> 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
> 
> * How do you think about to enclose the path for the shown parameter
>   by single quotes instead of double quotes?
> 
> * Can such path specifications become more interesting occasionally
>   if also an other file extension would be chosen than â.câ?
>   Would you like to achieve any software extensions around suffix rules?
> 
> Regards,
> Markus

Markus:

Feel free to submit patches.

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~Randy