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@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ Copyright 2010 Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>
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Getting Coccinelle
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-The semantic patches included in the kernel use the 'virtual rule'
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-feature which was introduced in Coccinelle version 0.1.11.
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+The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
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+which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
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+Using earlier versions will fail as the option names used by
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+the Coccinelle files and coccicheck have been updated.
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-Coccinelle (>=0.2.0) is available through the package manager
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+Coccinelle is available through the package manager
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of many distributions, e.g. :
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- - Debian (>=squeeze)
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- - Fedora (>=13)
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- - Ubuntu (>=10.04 Lucid Lynx)
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+ - Debian
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+ - Fedora
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+ - Ubuntu
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- OpenSUSE
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- Arch Linux
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- NetBSD
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@@ -36,11 +38,6 @@ as a regular user, and install it with
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sudo make install
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-The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
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-0.2.4 or later. Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
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-semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
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-correct.
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Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
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