> ~/git/kernels/staging/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_sysfs.c  > ret.out
>
>   init_defs_builtins: /usr/lib64/coccinelle/standard.h
>   minus: parse error:
>   File "ret.cocci", line 10, column 0, charpos = 80
>   around = '',
>   whole content =

The file[ret.cocci] sent by you works perfectly fine for me without any parsing
error. Are you sure there is nothing else in the same file [ret.cocci]?

Parsing error is shown at the line 10 and file has 9 lines. Also, in your
first mail you seemed to have something else as an error. [Exception
failure]

>  [varsha@varsha coccinelle]$ spatch --sp-file ret.cocci --no-includes
> ~/git/kernels/staging/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_sysfs.c  > ret.out
>  init_defs_builtins: /usr/lib64/coccinelle/standard.h
>  HANDLING:
> /home/varsha/git/kernels/staging/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_sysfs.c

If you have installed coccinelle from package manager then what is under
coccinelle directory?

Have you cloned coccinelle code and have tried to
install it manually as well?