Commit ec97946e authored by Nicolas Palix's avatar Nicolas Palix Committed by Michal Marek

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: default avatarNicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
parent 93f14468
......@@ -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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
......
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script requires at least spatch
# version 1.0.0-rc11.
#
SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`"
trap kill_running SIGTERM SIGINT
......
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