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sudo make install
+The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
+0.2.4 or later. Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
+semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
+correct.
Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
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