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Coccinelle: Update information about the minimal version required
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>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
authored by
Nicolas Palix
and committed by
Michal Marek
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Getting Coccinelle
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The semantic patches included in the kernel use the 'virtual rule'
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feature which was introduced in Coccinelle version 0.1.11.
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The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
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which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
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Using earlier versions will fail as the option names used by
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the Coccinelle files and coccicheck have been updated.
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Coccinelle (>=0.2.0) is available through the package manager
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Coccinelle is available through the package manager
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of many distributions, e.g. :
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- Debian (>=squeeze)
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- Fedora (>=13)
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- Ubuntu (>=10.04 Lucid Lynx)
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- Debian
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- Fedora
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- Ubuntu
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- OpenSUSE
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- Arch Linux
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- NetBSD
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as a regular user, and install it with
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sudo make install
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The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
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0.2.4 or later. Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
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semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
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correct.
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Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
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