On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:28:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:49:26PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > The number of sparse errors in the current kernel is staggering, and it > > makes sparse a lot less valuable of a tool that it otherwise could be. > > On a build of x86-64 allyesconfig I'm getting 20,676 sparse messages. > > Out of those, 12,358 come from linux/err.h. Given that the latter > > basically spams *everything*, I can only conclude that almost noone uses > > sparse unless they have a filter script. > > What errors are you seeing from err.h? I don't see those when building > different subdirectories with sparse (which is how I normally use it.) > > And what version of sparse are you running: > $ sparse --version > v0.4.5-rc1-407-g345e8943fc36
Ah, 0.5.0 is now out, maybe you should update to that version? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/