linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4)

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Message-ID: <20090102113115.GA3027@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:31:15 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-parisc <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	Randolph Chung <randolph@...sq.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	John David Anglin <dave@...uly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel
	modules (take 4)


* Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> > I guess I could make a sparse rule for this, but nobody seems to run 
> > or care about sparse anyway. Sad.
> 
> There is some increased janitorial effort recently. Try to grep for 
> [Ss]+parse in the shortlog for the last couple of months.

in the x86 space there's a lot of Sparse activity as well: a number of 
developers do systematic runs of Sparse and keep the tree Sparse-clean.

The moment this spreads to a critical mass of subsystems we can start 
automating it. (as i was able to automate the checking of -Werr builds on 
x86, with arbitrary random .config's)

	Ingo
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