Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:06:26 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi,
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: >> Indeed that one seems to be quite out of date. You can get the most >> recent version here: https://launchpad.net/~npalix/+archive/coccinelle > > With tools/coccinelle/ you would never run into such problems of distributing > the latest stable version to your fellow kernel developers: it would always be > available in tools/coccinelle/. > > Integration, synergy, availability, distribution and half a dozen other > buzzwords come to mind as to why it's a good idea to have kernel-focused > tools hosted in the kernel repo :-) > > IMO it's an option to consider.
That's my thinking too. Yes, 80 KLOC of OCaml in the kernel tree sounds crazy but I think the practical advantages might be enough to justify it. Btw, would git-submodule be something to consider here? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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