On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:23:45PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > With sparse 0.2, my previously sparse-clean driver generates the > following warnings: > > include/asm/checksum.h:182:6: warning: symbol 'sum' shadows an earlier one > include/asm/checksum.h:178:28: originally declared here > include/net/checksum.h:33:6: warning: symbol 'sum' shadows an earlier one > include/net/checksum.h:31:27: originally declared here > > Architecture is i386. The lines referred to are in the functions > csum_and_copy_to_user() and csum_and_copy_from_user(), but I > don't see why sparse would emit such a warning for that code.
It's complaining about the 'sum' declaration in __range_not_ok used by access_ok(), which shadows the variable declared in the prototype of the functions you mention. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/