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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> But if we can teach checkpatch to read the rule files, then maybe that
> would be beneficial.
>

The problem is Perl doesn't really understand C, while Coccinelle does.