linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] asm-generic: suppress sparse warning in ioctl.h

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Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
cc:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, josh@...edesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] asm-generic: suppress sparse warning in ioctl.h



On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> Umm...  How far do you want sparse to go?  You _really_ don't want
> bug-for-bug compatibility with gcc - it's far too weird (and that's
> even before going into the effects of optimization flags).

I would suggest just accepting link-time constants in constant 
expressions. But yeah, maybe limit even that just to unevaluated 
subexpressions.

That said, for sparse, the right thing to do would be to use 
__builtin_warning() or something, but gcc doesn't have that kind of thing, 
so..

> BTW, what happened with sparse.git?

Yeah, we do seem to have lost a maintainer.

		Linus
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