[cocci] [PATCH RESEND 2/3] scripts: coccicheck: warn on unset debug file
Benjamin Philip <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2026 00:38:35 +0530
| Newsgroups | fr.inria.cocci,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.workflows |
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coccicheck prints debug logs to stdout unless a debug file has been set. This makes it hard to read coccinelle's suggested changes, especially for someone new to coccicheck. From this commit, we warn about this behaviour from within the script on an unset debug file. Explicitly setting the debug file to /dev/null suppresses the warning while keeping the default. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Philip <[email protected]> --- scripts/coccicheck | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck index 2efb74afef2b..8dd766009de1 100755 --- a/scripts/coccicheck +++ b/scripts/coccicheck @@ -260,6 +260,11 @@ coccinelle () { } if [ "$DEBUG_FILE" = "" ]; then + echo 'You have not explicitly specified the debug file to use.' + echo 'Using default "/dev/null" as debug file.' + echo 'Debug logs will be printed to stdout.' + echo 'You can specify the debug file with "make coccicheck DEBUG_FILE=<debug_file>"' + echo '' DEBUG_FILE="/dev/null" fi -- 2.52.0