Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:15:08PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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/

Ick, gadget, I don't build that for my systems as I don't have that
hardware, sorry, I forgot to take that into consideration here.

Hey, at least I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow :)

greg k-h
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