linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Avoid that sparse complains about using sizeof(void)

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Date:   Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:59:18 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Cc:     Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Uecker, Martin" <Martin.Uecker@....uni-goettingen.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Avoid that sparse complains about using sizeof(void)

Oh,
 and I meant to cc Luc on that email, but then forgot. So here he is cc'd now.

            Linus

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 6:57 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Honestly, I'd like to just encourage people to get the sparse update
> from Luc Van Oostenryck instead.
>
> For a while there it looked like Chris Li would just pull from Luc,
> and we'd have timely releases, but that really doesn't seem to have
> ended up happening after all. So right now it's probably just best to
> get Luc's tree instead from
>
>     https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse-dev
>
> which also ends up fixing a lot of other issues.
>
>                 Linus