Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757880AbZABLbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:31:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756840AbZABLbm (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:31:42 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:43610 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755803AbZABLbk (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:31:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:31:15 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Linus Torvalds , Roland Dreier , Ian Campbell , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Helge Deller , Rusty Russell , linux-parisc , Linux Kernel Development , Kyle McMartin , Randolph Chung , Andrew Morton , John David Anglin Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (take 4) Message-ID: <20090102113115.GA3027@elte.hu> References: <4959346E.7060600@gmx.de> <200812310915.41693.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <495B5806.3080505@gmx.de> <20081231181136.GA4382@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081231181136.GA4382@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 22 * Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > I guess I could make a sparse rule for this, but nobody seems to run > > or care about sparse anyway. Sad. > > There is some increased janitorial effort recently. Try to grep for > [Ss]+parse in the shortlog for the last couple of months. in the x86 space there's a lot of Sparse activity as well: a number of developers do systematic runs of Sparse and keep the tree Sparse-clean. The moment this spreads to a critical mass of subsystems we can start automating it. (as i was able to automate the checking of -Werr builds on x86, with arbitrary random .config's) Ingo -- 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/