linux-kernel - Re: [lm-sensors] [RFC][PATCH] hwmon:fix sparse warnings + error handling

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <tkoje25hlbjo1ui9i9v86fpdl6h4sfjnpq@4ax.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:46:27 +1000
From:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@...htlink.com>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [RFC][PATCH] hwmon:fix sparse warnings + error handling

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:11:27 +0200, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote:

>Mark, Michal,
>
>> Thanks for doing this... but Andrew please don't apply it.  The sensors project
>> people are working on these even now, and we already have a patch for the
>> w83627hf driver...
>> 
>> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-August/017204.html
>> 
>> Jean Delvare (hwmon maintainer) should be sending these up the chain soon.
>> 
>> Michal: if you're interested in fixing any of the rest of them, please take
>> a look at the patch above to see the mechanism we intend to use.  It actually
>> makes the drivers *smaller* than they were.
>
>The size change really depends on the driver. For older drivers with
>individual file registration (sometimes hidden behind macros) the
>driver size will indeed shrink, but for newer drivers with loop-based
>file registration, this would be a slight increase in size. Not that it
>really matters anyway, what matters is that we handle errors and file
>deletion properly from now on.
>
>Michal, if you go on working on this (and this is welcome), please
>follow what Mark did, as this is what we agreed was the best approach.
>Here is a quick status summary for drivers/hwmon:
>
...
> o adm9240

Somebody else is welcome to do this one, my last patch was dropped.

Grant.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/