Re: Coccinelle

On Sun, 30 Mar 2025, Samuel Abraham wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM Julia Lawall <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > The actual internship project will involve using Coccinelle.  Some warm up
> > examplesin using Coccinelle are available at the following URL:
> >
> > https://who.paris.inria.fr/Julia.Lawall/outreachy25/
> >
> > These have been pre-tested to ensure that they highlight some
> > interesting changes that you can make in the staging drivers.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any questions.
> >
> > julia
> >
>
> Hello Julia.
> Thank you for always being so helpful and for your consistent guidance.
>
> I have been able to test the SmPL scripts on some drivers, though
> without making the changes in place,
> just showing the diff.
> But I would like to ask, are there specific things we should do at
> this point with Coccinelle, or should we
> send patches transformed with Coccinelle?

The goal for the moment is to install and run the tool, and then look at
the output and when appropriate send more patches.

julia