[PATCH v4] coccicheck: Support search for SmPL scripts within selected directory hierarchy

[PATCH v4] coccicheck: Support search for SmPL scripts within selected directory hierarchy

[zhongshiqi]

Allow defining the environment variable “COCCI” as a directory 
to search SmPL scripts. Start a corresponding file determination
if it contains an acceptable path.

Signed-off-by: zhongshiqi <zhong.shiqi@zte.com.cn>
---
Changes in v4:
	1:rewrite change description in another wording

Changes in v3:
	1:rewrite change description
	2:fix patch subject
	3:modify commit log

Changes in v2:
	1.fix patch subject according to the reply by Markus
	<Markus.Elfring@web.de>
	2.change description in “imperative mood”
 
 scripts/coccicheck | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
index e04d328..a1c4197 100755
--- a/scripts/coccicheck
+++ b/scripts/coccicheck
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ if [ "$COCCI" = "" ] ; then
     for f in `find $srctree/scripts/coccinelle/ -name '*.cocci' -type f | sort`; do
 	coccinelle $f
     done
+elif [ -d "$COCCI" ] ; then
+    for f in `find $COCCI/ -name '*.cocci' -type f | sort`; do
+	coccinelle $f
+    done
 else
     coccinelle $COCCI
 fi
-- 
2.9.5

Re: [PATCH v4] coccicheck: Support search for SmPL scripts within selected directory hierarchy

[Markus Elfring]

> Allow defining the environment variable “COCCI” as a directory
> to search SmPL scripts. Start a corresponding file determination
> if it contains an acceptable path.

Would the paragraph formatting be nicer as an enumeration
as I suggested it previously?


Would you like to update the provided software documentation together with
the small extension of this bash script?

Update candidates:
*

* https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck#controlling_which_files_are_processed_by_coccinelle

Regards,
Markus

Re: [PATCH v4] coccicheck: Support search for SmPL scripts within selected directory hierarchy

[Markus Elfring]

> Would you like to update the provided software documentation together with
> the small extension of this bash script?
>
> Update candidates:

Please reconsider also the section “Using Coccinelle with a single semantic patch”:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst?id=f877bee5ea0b56c39cd0a243e113a577b5a4ef92#n151

Regards,
Markus