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| author | Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@gmail.com> | 2020-11-26 13:27:30 +0530 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-12-03 15:45:18 -0700 |
| commit | 27b03cf1b772f40f97f5c22dafce668436fb548d (patch) | |
| tree | 20abe3acd97d468154948f5b96e6ca3ad11448ef /Documentation/dev-tools | |
| parent | ed13a92d0fdec0f36791343d39bc646d91cd7d98 (diff) | |
Documentation: Coccinelle: Improve command example for debugging patches
Modify Coccinelle documentation to clarify usage of make command to
run coccicheck on a folder.
Changes in v2:
- Give example of folder instead of file
- Add note
Signed-off-by: Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126075730.w6brpeuviefmsxhl@adolin
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst index 74c5e6aeeff5..9c454de5a7f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst @@ -224,14 +224,21 @@ you may want to use:: rm -f err.log export COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/misc/irqf_oneshot.cocci - make coccicheck DEBUG_FILE="err.log" MODE=report SPFLAGS="--profile --show-trying" M=./drivers/mfd/arizona-irq.c + make coccicheck DEBUG_FILE="err.log" MODE=report SPFLAGS="--profile --show-trying" M=./drivers/mfd err.log will now have the profiling information, while stdout will provide some progress information as Coccinelle moves forward with work. +NOTE: + DEBUG_FILE support is only supported when using coccinelle >= 1.0.2. +Currently, DEBUG_FILE support is only available to check folders, and +not single files. This is because checking a single file requires spatch +to be called twice leading to DEBUG_FILE being set both times to the same value, +giving rise to an error. + .cocciconfig support -------------------- |