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Commit ec97946e authored by Nicolas Palix's avatar Nicolas Palix Committed by Michal Marek
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Coccinelle: Update information about the minimal version required 



The naming convention of options has changed one year ago.
The options have been recently updated in the cocci file
and in scripts/coccicheck. This patch also adds this information
in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
parent 93f14468

Documentation/coccinelle.txt

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@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ Copyright 2010 Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr> 
 Getting Coccinelle

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The semantic patches included in the kernel use the 'virtual rule'

feature which was introduced in Coccinelle version 0.1.11.

The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options

which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.

Using earlier versions will fail as the option names used by

the Coccinelle files and coccicheck have been updated.



Coccinelle (>=0.2.0) is available through the package manager

Coccinelle is available through the package manager

of many distributions, e.g. :



 - Debian (>=squeeze)

 - Fedora (>=13)

 - Ubuntu (>=10.04 Lucid Lynx)

 - Debian

 - Fedora

 - Ubuntu

 - OpenSUSE

 - Arch Linux

 - NetBSD
@@ -36,11 +38,6 @@ as a regular user, and install it with 


        sudo make install



The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version

0.2.4 or later.  Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the

semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be

correct.



 Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

scripts/coccicheck

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#!/bin/bash



#

# This script requires at least spatch

# version 1.0.0-rc11.

#



SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`"



trap kill_running SIGTERM SIGINT