Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754751AbaB0Djs (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:39:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6813 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754475AbaB0Djr (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:39:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:15:08 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Greg KH Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel Message-ID: <20140227031508.GA8950@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Greg KH , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <530E6F76.1070605@zytor.com> <20140226232859.GA9213@kroah.com> <530E82B2.3040305@zytor.com> <20140227013424.GA9991@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140227013424.GA9991@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/