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| author | Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr> | 2013-07-03 16:41:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2013-07-03 22:58:20 +0200 |
| commit | ec97946ed038f4b3faa587bc76152b198805b0c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 048774b662e1b340d00decd7072e4f85efb1657c | |
| parent | 93f14468491747d6d3efd0b3a42785b1d51a127a (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-ec97946ed038f4b3faa587bc76152b198805b0c4.zip op-kernel-dev-ec97946ed038f4b3faa587bc76152b198805b0c4.tar.gz | |
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: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/coccinelle.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/coccicheck | 5 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt index 81a329f..7f773d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt +++ b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt @@ -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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck index d3757ad..bbf901a 100755 --- a/scripts/coccicheck +++ b/scripts/coccicheck @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ #!/bin/bash +# +# This script requires at least spatch +# version 1.0.0-rc11. +# + SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`" trap kill_running SIGTERM SIGINT |
