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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:08:43 +0000
Subject: Re: [v2] Documentation: Coccinelle: fix typos and command example
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To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>, Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>, Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>

On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:52:58AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/1/20 6:32 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >>> How do you think about to use the following command variant
> >>> for the adjustment of the software documentation?
> >>>
> >>> +    make C=1 CHECK='scripts/coccicheck' 'path/to/file.o'
> >>
> >> I don't understand the reason for that change...
> 
> IOW, your "patch" needs justification and/or explanation. It was missing that info.

What Markus is trying so completely ineptly to say is that
  make C=1 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck path/to/file.c
doesn't work.  You need to use the .o suffix to check the .c file.