Getting Coccinelle
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-The semantic patches included in the kernel use the 'virtual rule'
-feature which was introduced in Coccinelle version 0.1.11.
+The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
+which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
+Using earlier versions will fail as the option names used by
+the Coccinelle files and coccicheck have been updated.
-Coccinelle (>=0.2.0) is available through the package manager
+Coccinelle is available through the package manager
of many distributions, e.g. :
- - Debian (>=squeeze)
- - Fedora (>=13)
- - Ubuntu (>=10.04 Lucid Lynx)
+ - Debian
+ - Fedora
+ - Ubuntu
- OpenSUSE
- Arch Linux
- NetBSD
sudo make install
-The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
-0.2.4 or later. Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
-semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
-correct.
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Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
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