Use Coccinelle's "depends on" directive to exclude files from certain
transformations. This should make them a bit simpler and possibly
faster, since we don't have to shell out to Python.
Unfortunately, this works only for file/directory exclusions. For
function and other more complex exclusions we still need to use Python,
at least for now.
Also, completely drop the file exclusion for man/ in the xsprintf
transformation, since we filter out everything under man/ before we even
run Coccinelle (in run-coccinelle.sh).
Some transformations generate results we don't want to keep, so
let's disable such transformations for specific files.
Also, disable const-strlen.cocci everywhere, as the STRLEN macro has a
pretty limited scope, so the transformation generates false positives in
most cases.
With these additions, coccinelle finds everything fixed by the first
commit in PR #7695. In order not to needlessly conflict with that PR
this PR won't include those fixes, but only the coccinelle changes to
detect them automatically in the future.
Frantisek Sumsal
Mike Yuan
Yu Watanabe
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Lennart Poettering