On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:52:58AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On 7/1/20 6:32 AM, Markus Elfring wrote: > > >>> How do you think about to use the following command variant > > >>> for the adjustment of the software documentation? > > >>> > > >>> + make C=1 CHECK='scripts/coccicheck' 'path/to/file.o' > > >> > > >> I don't understand the reason for that change... > > > > IOW, your "patch" needs justification and/or explanation. It was missing that info. > > What Markus is trying so completely ineptly to say is that > make C=1 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck path/to/file.c > doesn't work. You need to use the .o suffix to check the .c file. Thanks Matthew for this very helpful information. julia