Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: Enhance static analysis section with discussion

David Gow <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Apr 2022 08:22:05 +0800

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:50 AM Marcelo Schmitt
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Enhance the static analysis tools section with a discussion on when to
> use each of them.
>
> This was mainly taken from Dan Carpenter and Julia Lawall's comments on
> a previous documentation patch for static analysis tools.
>
> Lore: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20220329090911.GX3293@kadam/T/#mb97770c8e938095aadc3ee08f4ac7fe32ae386e6
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Schmitt <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: David Gow <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
> ---
> Change log v2 -> v3:
> - Changed the paragraph about Sparse to make it sound better (hopefully)
> - Minor adjusts to make the considerations about Coccinelle sound better
>   and be precise

These (plus the cut down note on Sparse/Smatch overlaps) are
definitely an improvement.

Assuming no-one with more knowledge of these that me objects, I think
this is good-to-go!

Thanks,
-- David