On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Remington Furman wrote:

> On 12/01/2017 02:00 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > Hi Julia,
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 10:18 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > The handling of attributes has also been extended so that you can
> > > > actually
> > > > match against them in some cases, such as on function declarations.  On
> > > > the oher hand, nothing was done to allow attributes in front of types
> > > > that
> > > > are alone.
> > > Very cool!
> > > > I can try to fix this.  In the short term, perhaps using 1.0.4 is
> > > > acceptable.
> > > To me that's OK, I'll try to keep it in mind.
> > >
> > > Can we do some "#ifdef" type syntax in spatch on the version of it? :-)
> > There's nothing for that available at the moment.
> > > I guess I could also have two different versions of the patch and write
> > > some code to pick up which one to use, but that's a bit awkward ...
> > >
> > > But let me know if you can't actually fix this (easily), then I can do
> > > that instead.
> > OK, I'll try to look at it soon.
> >
> > julia
> I thought I'd point out the layers of coevolution that result from the
> changing spatch behavior.  :) It's a bit fractal when every layer in the
> dependency graph has the possibility to change.  I suppose a #ifdef type
> solution might remove the potential need to backport the .cocci patches
> themselves going forward.
>
> But, I think it might be sufficient to just document what version of the
> tools, in this case spatch, were used for a particular backports
> commit/release.  It's easy enough to build any version of spatch from git.  Or
> perhaps each .cocci patch could have a comment listing the spatch version it
> was developed with.  Future backports releases could then update the patch
> syntax as needed, document the spatch version, and leave it at that.

Hello,

I updated the github version of Coccinelle such that
patches/0027-genl-const/genl-const.cocci
will almost parse correctly.  The only thing that remains is to change
attribute into attribute name.

julia