Subject: Re: scripts/coccicheck: Update for a comment?
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
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Cc: Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>, Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 09:19:28 +0200
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> Either you send the patch, or I will send the patch, when I have time,
> with no credit to you.

I am curious when "the time" will be appropriate.


> I'm not an expert on all of the future plans for the documentation,

I assumed that you know a bit more about the corresponding software evolution
than me.


> The only think I know is where the file is now, and that the file
> is perfectly readable in its rst format, and thus it seems
> quite all right to reference it.

I can agree to such an information in principle.


> If the situation change in the future, we can have another patch
> in the future.

I would appreciate another clarification:
Do I overlook any commit for the discussed source file anyhow?
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst

Regards,
Markus