Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263676AbTIHUnr (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:43:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263678AbTIHUnq (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:43:46 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:2947 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263676AbTIHUnn (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:43:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:43:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andries Brouwer cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] use size_t for the broken ioctl numbers In-Reply-To: <20030908222742.A1085@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1228 Lines: 36 On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Got it. Thanks! Side notes: - Jeff made a mailing list if you're really interested in sparse (majordomo@vger.kernel.org, the list name is "linux-sparse") - most of the warnings right now seem to be "bad constant expression" due to the adoption of C99 variable-sized arrays in . I don't much like it. - the rest are mostly due to the address space checks. Some of them are likely trivial to fix, but the most interesting ones (in the networking code) are because the networking code re-uses the same data structures for both kernel and user addresses. David said he'd fix it a long time ago, but he never got around to it.. Finally: - it's not seriously usable yet. It's _almost_ there, but especially the networking thing has kept me from being very motivated lately. I've documented some of the preprocessor limitations in the "validation" tests. Have fun. Linus - 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/