From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6A6C433DF for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3777206BE for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="MRTt2R5E" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731645AbgGAOxM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2020 10:53:12 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54862 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730264AbgGAOxM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2020 10:53:12 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1231::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27218C08C5C1; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:53:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=qv8ZMHyKHCmtMm5Rtqv9XtfpZqKg8Q3pyrTN/4USWyA=; b=MRTt2R5E/H73jBWpLvDEUo1CMX 1Dzqder3R5kLUZV5Ww+or+SUWGZb9iBA0Ow3Tz1tdlFFRSaB8KSP9MwvNFl6WmZGYVWSqMpt8aeGg t0bKO7YB8i4cw4qaGH/pAb5C7g2bF8tUZ+NXvA/XXRtqg2JIQoBrmViPGoiEbCHOhlvitdoUdBlCT Q2DmuUvy02L02E6j6zVsx49y3mRs1pNUZQ6owhCImK/rNsgEVRyoVPdXypIWJYOa8ZBuupSyDFW0s 2SWZWXh1xMcmBmMcqgDhE+tYSiLdd11t6uI5rf7QlXetiY7LMxb2a2mkFK6ISYsHbV7mIzwjgrdhB U8Ph/H8g==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::19c2] by merlin.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jqe6i-0003q4-57; Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:53:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [v2] Documentation: Coccinelle: fix typos and command example To: Markus Elfring , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Coccinelle Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall , Gilles Muller , Nicolas Palix , Michal Marek , Masahiro Yamada , Jonathan Corbet References: <0616dd0c-bb86-be2b-3dc6-1c695a92c3ca@infradead.org> <2a3940de-6a81-1aff-8109-53c1c5a6aa1b@web.de> <2f80fb10-dc7f-29be-dc3e-2715f8bafc6d@web.de> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:52:58 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2f80fb10-dc7f-29be-dc3e-2715f8bafc6d@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On 7/1/20 6:32 AM, Markus Elfring wrote: >>>>> We might stumble on different interpretations according to the wording “file basis”. >>>>> Do you find a message like “make: Nothing to be done for 'path/to/file.c'.” interesting then? >>>>> >>>>> * Would you like to add any links for information around the support for >>>>> source code checkers? >>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Makefile?id=7c30b859a947535f2213277e827d7ac7dcff9c84#n198 >>> … >>>> Feel free to submit patches. >>> >>> 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. > Is our understanding still incomplete for the support of source code checking parameters > by the make script? > > * Will software analysis be performed in addition to the desired compilation > of a source file (according to the selected object file)? > > * How do you think about to trigger only the generation of analysis results > for a single file? Do I need to remove that line from the patch? Feel free to submit patches, not just comments. -- ~Randy