New APIs are continually added to the Linux kernel, to improve functionality, reliability, or performance.  Nevertheless, it is a challenge to update old code to use these new APIs.  Coccinelle is a program matching and transformation tool for C code that has been extensively been applied to the Linux kernel.  This talk will introduce Coccinelle and illustrate how it can be used for this kind of code renovation. 

Categories: debugging
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speaker: Julia LAWALL
year: 2013