From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Quentin Lambert Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:42:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix a spatch warning due to an assignment from kernel to Message-Id: <46ee428d-016f-e532-9824-4ddbe8a0cc8b@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <20161202173332.5100-1-lambert.quentin@gmail.com> <306D1D4D-A949-44F6-BAFE-44F08F609D9B@intel.com> <81821426-c32c-c45a-e9a3-82f9818fc986@gmail.com> <33d23121-e5ca-0e14-bfbb-632f883e0948@gmail.com> <20161207153317.GO8176@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20161207153317.GO8176@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Oleg Drokin , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger , lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org On 12/07/2016 04:33 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > Lustre is kind of a mess with regards to keeping user and kernel > pointers separate. It's not going to be easy to fix. Fair enough. I am trying to make a contribution to drivers/staging using sparse. With that in mind, do you still fill I should keep clear of lustre? I feel that actually doing the work properly could be a meaningful learning experience. I start to understand now, that what I was proposing before was more of a hack than a solution and would have resulted in hiding meaningful infos. Quentin