Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262694AbTE0G05 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 02:26:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262706AbTE0G05 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 02:26:57 -0400 Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.101]:60653 "EHLO pimout2-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262694AbTE0G05 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 02:26:57 -0400 From: dan carpenter To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [2.5] [Cool stuff] "checking" mode for kernel builds Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 15:17:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net References: <3ED2BE4D.4080005@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3ED2BE4D.4080005@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305261517.05613.d_carpenter@sbcglobal.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 25 On Tuesday 27 May 2003 03:24 am, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > Most people who have used the tool actually like how it forces you to > > make it very _explicit_ whether you're using a user pointer or not. But I > > have to admit that I've grown tired of trying to look at all the uses and > > making sure which sparse warnings are valid and which aren't. > > Dan? IIRC you have tools to tackle this issue in a distributed manner. > > Tracking bugs from one version to the next works pretty well for kbugs.org. Anyone can moderate the bugs as real or not. I haven't used sparse script yet, but I'll do that tomorrow. I'd be happy to post the results on kbugs.org. :) regards, dan carpenter - 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/