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

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Date:   Sun, 15 Jul 2018 03:28:03 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>
To:     "torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "keescook@...omium.org" <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com" <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
CC:     "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Martin.Uecker@....uni-goettingen.de" 
        <Martin.Uecker@....uni-goettingen.de>,
        "miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com" <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Avoid that sparse complains about using
 sizeof(void)

On Sat, 2018-07-14 at 18:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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
>
> Oh,
>  and I meant to cc Luc on that email, but then forgot. So here he is cc'd now.
> 
>             Linus

Hello everyone,

I will switch to Luc's sparse tree.

Thank you for the feedback.

Bart.