Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934246Ab1CXUlB (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:41:01 -0400 Received: from mgw2.diku.dk ([130.225.96.92]:52244 "EHLO mgw2.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933904Ab1CXUlA (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:41:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:39:54 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: Nicolas Palix , "Aneesh Kumar K. V" , Pekka Enberg , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , Steven Rostedt , Jonathan Corbet , LKML , Andy Whitcroft , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1300416744.16880.904.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20110317211548.646b04d2@tpl.lwn.net> <1300419170.16880.956.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <8762r8mt0h.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 20 > So does it mean that you do not even have a stable grammar ? Do you at > least offer any guarantee that a script made for version X will still > work in version X+1 ? The inability to put - on <+... ...+> was a bug. So I don't know if fixing a bug would be considered a sign of an unstable grammar. There was also one deliberate change in the grammar some rc's ago related to the use of commas in sequences (parameter lists etc). But otherwise, the changes in the grammar have been additions, as people eg ask for new kinds of metavariables. But Coccinelle is a research prototype under development, not a product. So I'm not sure it is appropriate to say that we guarantee anything. julia -- 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/