Coccinelle: Add support to the SPFLAGS variable
The SPFLAGS variable allows to pass additional options
to spatch, e.g. -use_glimpse.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
diff --git a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
index dffa2d62..18de785 100644
--- a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
For example, to check drivers/net/wireless/ one may write:
make coccicheck M=drivers/net/wireless/
-
+
To apply Coccinelle on a file basis, instead of a directory basis, the
following command may be used:
@@ -134,6 +134,15 @@
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+ Additional flags
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Additional flags can be passed to spatch through the SPFLAGS
+variable.
+
+ make SPFLAGS=--use_glimpse coccicheck
+
+See spatch --help to learn more about spatch options.
Proposing new semantic patches
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diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
index cdde8e0..6d492c0 100755
--- a/scripts/coccicheck
+++ b/scripts/coccicheck
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
VERBOSE=0
fi
-FLAGS="-very_quiet"
+FLAGS="$SPFLAGS -very_quiet"
# spatch only allows include directories with the syntax "-I include"
# while gcc also allows "-Iinclude" and "-include include"