Comment by mananaysiempre
2 days ago
> If you've just spent half an hour walking through driver code for hardware you've never heard of changing stuff [...].
Isn’t the point of Coccinelle that you don’t have to spend time walking through (C) driver code you’ve never heard of?
I have never used Coccinelle but yes, sort of. However, you're on the hook for the patch you submit, Coccinelle isn't a person so if you blindly send out a patch Coccinelle generated, without even eyeballing it, you should expect some risk of thrown tomatoes if (unknown to you) this utterly broke some clever code using your previous API in a way you hadn't anticipated in a driver you don't run.