Hello, Thanks Julia and Vaishali for helping me. I understood the reason for blank output. Since, the *file has already been updated with the coccinelle output patch and as Vaishali said, so there is no case where coccinelle can be applied. Probably the example needs to be changed, as it may create confusion for newbies. Thanks, Varsha *File referred here is most/hdm-dim2/dim2_sysfs.c