linux-kernel - Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel

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Message-ID: <20140227031508.GA8950@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:15:08 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 05:34:24PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

 > Yes, for some areas of the kernel it will take some work, but for
 > others, sparse works really well.  As an example, building all of
 > drivers/usb/* with sparse only brings up 2 issues, both of which should
 > probably be fixed (or annotated properly in the case of the locking
 > warning.)

Hm. I see 102 in drivers/usb. Mostly in gadget. 
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/80787/39347077/raw/

(Note that some of those are duplicates, which would be nice if sparse
would be quieter about)

	Dave

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