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Subject[PATCH] Coccinelle: Update information about the minimal version required
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The naming convention of options has changed one year ago.
The options have been recently updated in the cocci file
and in scripts/coccicheck. This patch also adds this information
in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
---
Documentation/coccinelle.txt | 19 ++++++++-----------
scripts/coccicheck | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
index 81a329f..7f773d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ Copyright 2010 Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>
Getting Coccinelle
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-The semantic patches included in the kernel use the 'virtual rule'
-feature which was introduced in Coccinelle version 0.1.11.
+The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
+which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
+Using earlier versions will fail as the option names used by
+the Coccinelle files and coccicheck have been updated.

-Coccinelle (>=0.2.0) is available through the package manager
+Coccinelle is available through the package manager
of many distributions, e.g. :

- - Debian (>=squeeze)
- - Fedora (>=13)
- - Ubuntu (>=10.04 Lucid Lynx)
+ - Debian
+ - Fedora
+ - Ubuntu
- OpenSUSE
- Arch Linux
- NetBSD
@@ -36,11 +38,6 @@ as a regular user, and install it with

sudo make install

-The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
-0.2.4 or later. Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
-semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
-correct.
-
Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
index d3757ad..bbf901a 100755
--- a/scripts/coccicheck
+++ b/scripts/coccicheck
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
#!/bin/bash

+#
+# This script requires at least spatch
+# version 1.0.0-rc11.
+#
+
SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`"

trap kill_running SIGTERM SIGINT
--
1.7.9.5


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