On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > On 02/26/2014 03:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 02/26/2014 03:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> 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? >>> >> >> Yes... it looks like the 0.4.5-rc1 that shipped in Fedora is indeed out >> of date. With 0.5.0 I "only" see 8,207 messages, which means that at >> least the linux/err.h issue is gone. >> > > For what it's worth, the rpm is called sparse-0.4.5.rc1-2.fc19.x86_64 > and sparse --version reports 0.4.4...
Fedora rawhide has sparse-0.5.0-1.fc21. If it matters, we could probably update F20 and F19 with that. josh -- 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/
