Use coccinelle to check patch in Ubuntu 14.04

发表于 2021-07-05 更新于 2022-07-24

In Ubuntu14.04, when running coccinelle, it will fail. So we install it manually to make patch check. This note helps to remember the steps.

install from its git repo: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle.git
install the packedge mention in install.txt
./autogen
./configure
./make
./make install
cd in a kernel directory, run:

make coccicheck MODE=report M=arch/arm64/mm

It will check all the patch under, e.g. arch/arm64/mm