aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorHeinrich Schuchardt2020-06-05 05:13:44 +0200
committerTom Rini2020-07-17 08:45:29 -0400
commitaac9f284dbc3ae6a14d6fc8cf06c89aa9431b75b (patch)
tree942abedcb553e941ee1b8a51895132bd1f39ce52 /doc
parent7c3cc6f106ed1ca13b0ff6eea9f8e1473240aef3 (diff)
doc: Coccinelle: move to HTML doc
Move doc/README.coccinelle to doc/develop/coccinelle.rst using the current linux-next version of the text. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/develop/coccinelle.rst (renamed from doc/README.coccinelle)36
-rw-r--r--doc/develop/index.rst1
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.coccinelle b/doc/develop/coccinelle.rst
index 4a64b4c69d3..70274c3f5f5 100644
--- a/doc/README.coccinelle
+++ b/doc/develop/coccinelle.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
.. highlight:: none
+.. _devtools_coccinelle:
+
Coccinelle
==========
@@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ many uses in kernel development, including the application of complex,
tree-wide patches and detection of problematic programming patterns.
Getting Coccinelle
--------------------
+------------------
The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
@@ -30,23 +32,31 @@ of many distributions, e.g. :
- NetBSD
- FreeBSD
-You can get the latest version released from the Coccinelle homepage at
+Some distribution packages are obsolete and it is recommended
+to use the latest version released from the Coccinelle homepage at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
-Information and tips about Coccinelle are also provided on the wiki
-pages at http://cocci.ekstranet.diku.dk/wiki/doku.php
+Or from Github at:
+
+https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle
-Once you have it, run the following command::
+Once you have it, run the following commands::
- ./configure
+ ./autogen
+ ./configure
make
as a regular user, and install it with::
sudo make install
+More detailed installation instructions to build from source can be
+found at:
+
+https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/install.txt
+
Supplemental documentation
----------------------------
+--------------------------
For supplemental documentation refer to the wiki:
@@ -54,6 +64,10 @@ https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck
The wiki documentation always refers to the linux-next version of the script.
+For Semantic Patch Language(SmPL) grammar documentation refer to:
+
+http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/documentation.php
+
Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
------------------------------------
@@ -114,7 +128,7 @@ To enable verbose messages set the V= variable, for example::
make coccicheck MODE=report V=1
Coccinelle parallelization
----------------------------
+--------------------------
By default, coccicheck tries to run as parallel as possible. To change
the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs::
@@ -209,7 +223,7 @@ err.log will now have the profiling information, while stdout will
provide some progress information as Coccinelle moves forward with
work.
-DEBUG_FILE support is only supported when using coccinelle >= 1.2.
+DEBUG_FILE support is only supported when using coccinelle >= 1.0.2.
.cocciconfig support
--------------------
@@ -226,7 +240,7 @@ Since coccicheck runs through make, it naturally runs from the kernel
proper dir, as such the second rule above would be implied for picking up a
.cocciconfig when using ``make coccicheck``.
-``make coccicheck`` also supports using M= targets.If you do not supply
+``make coccicheck`` also supports using M= targets. If you do not supply
any M= target, it is assumed you want to target the entire kernel.
The kernel coccicheck script has::
@@ -319,7 +333,7 @@ as an example if requiring at least Coccinelle >= 1.0.5::
// Requires: 1.0.5
Proposing new semantic patches
--------------------------------
+------------------------------
New semantic patches can be proposed and submitted by kernel
developers. For sake of clarity, they should be organized in the
diff --git a/doc/develop/index.rst b/doc/develop/index.rst
index eb5095a9eb5..98a95ad434c 100644
--- a/doc/develop/index.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/index.rst
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ Develop U-Boot
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+ coccinelle
crash_dumps
logging