> Somewhat related.  The devref on opensolaris.org contains the "NEVER
 > EVER USE /*LINTLIBRARY*/ IN KERNEL SOURCE" warning.  Though it doesn't
 > state why, I've been assuming this is because of its unfortunate
 > tendency to hide real errors.

Yes.

 > In attempt to test that theory, I dragged all the /*LINTLIBRARY*/
 > comments of the pci* and px_* code, and well, whether that's the
 > primary reason or not, it does hide errors.
 > 
 > There's several non-errors related to conflicts between psycho and
 > schizo specific code, but from memory there's quite a chunk of real
 > issues too.
 > 
 > Sadly, my attempts to fix it up properly got blocked behind being
 > unable to find out if there were other reasons for the LINTLIBRARY bits
 > there, and a lack of cycles to figure out cleaning up the psycho v.
 > schizo conflicts.

:-(  If we haven't already, we should log a bug on it so we don't lose
track.  Clearly we've got a lot of lint-related work to do.

-- 
meem
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