Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 4/4] Remove unnecessary variables for function return value

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 March 2018 at 17:30, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm less certain of whether our Coccinelle scripts have easy ways to exclude
> specific files.  We already have scripts/cocci-macro-file.h to help
> Coccinelle not choke on some our existing files, but I'm not sure if
> Coccinelle has a config-file like way that is easy to maintain as a data
> file in-tree for blacklist files to leave alone (right now, when I run
> Coccinelle, I have to manually remember to pass a long command line cribbed
> out of the commit message of an earlier run to pick up things like
> cocci-macro-file.h, instead of an easy formula that points to a single
> config file to pull in all the usual options).

Coccinelle itself doesn't seem to have a config file mechanism.
We could probably approximate one by using a wrapper script
that skips some files and run the passed spatch file on the rest;
scripts/clean-includes has some "skip files we don't want to try
to run on" code that could perhaps be generalized.

thanks
-- PMM