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diff --git a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst index eb4b185d168c..4b7a5ab3cec1 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ features; most of these are found in the "kernel hacking" submenu. Several of these options should be turned on for any kernel used for development or testing purposes. In particular, you should turn on: - - ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED, ENABLE_MUST_CHECK, and FRAME_WARN to get an + - ENABLE_MUST_CHECK and FRAME_WARN to get an extra set of warnings for problems like the use of deprecated interfaces or ignoring an important return value from a function. The output generated by these warnings can be verbose, but one need not worry about @@ -315,7 +315,8 @@ variety of potential coding problems; it can also propose fixes for those problems. Quite a few "semantic patches" for the kernel have been packaged under the scripts/coccinelle directory; running "make coccicheck" will run through those semantic patches and report on any problems found. See -Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst for more information. +:ref:`Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst <devtools_coccinelle>` +for more information. Other kinds of portability errors are best found by compiling your code for other architectures. If you do not happen to have an S/390 system or a |