Subject: Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due
 to an assignment from kernel to user space
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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On 12/07/2016 04:33 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Lustre is kind of a mess with regards to keeping user and kernel
> pointers separate.  It's not going to be easy to fix.
Fair enough.
I am trying to make a contribution to drivers/staging using sparse.
With that in mind, do you still fill I should keep clear of lustre?
I feel that actually doing the work properly could be a meaningful
learning experience.

I start to understand now, that what I was proposing before was
more of a hack than a solution and would have resulted in hiding
meaningful infos.

Quentin