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Coccinelle
==========
tree-wide patches and detection of problematic programming patterns.
Getting Coccinelle
--------------------
+------------------
The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
- NetBSD
- FreeBSD
-You can get the latest version released from the Coccinelle homepage at
+Some distribution packages are obsolete and it is recommended
+to use the latest version released from the Coccinelle homepage at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
-Information and tips about Coccinelle are also provided on the wiki
-pages at http://cocci.ekstranet.diku.dk/wiki/doku.php
+Or from Github at:
+
+https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle
-Once you have it, run the following command::
+Once you have it, run the following commands::
- ./configure
+ ./autogen
+ ./configure
make
as a regular user, and install it with::
sudo make install
+More detailed installation instructions to build from source can be
+found at:
+
+https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/install.txt
+
Supplemental documentation
----------------------------
+--------------------------
For supplemental documentation refer to the wiki:
The wiki documentation always refers to the linux-next version of the script.
+For Semantic Patch Language(SmPL) grammar documentation refer to:
+
+http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/documentation.php
+
Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
------------------------------------
make coccicheck MODE=report V=1
Coccinelle parallelization
----------------------------
+--------------------------
By default, coccicheck tries to run as parallel as possible. To change
the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs::
provide some progress information as Coccinelle moves forward with
work.
-DEBUG_FILE support is only supported when using coccinelle >= 1.2.
+DEBUG_FILE support is only supported when using coccinelle >= 1.0.2.
.cocciconfig support
--------------------
proper dir, as such the second rule above would be implied for picking up a
.cocciconfig when using ``make coccicheck``.
-``make coccicheck`` also supports using M= targets.If you do not supply
+``make coccicheck`` also supports using M= targets. If you do not supply
any M= target, it is assumed you want to target the entire kernel.
The kernel coccicheck script has::
// Requires: 1.0.5
Proposing new semantic patches
--------------------------------
+------------------------------
New semantic patches can be proposed and submitted by kernel
developers. For sake of clarity, they should be organized in the