From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Sparse errors
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:37:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190328183746.GA23387@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190328183417.GB3568@bharath12345-Inspiron-5559>
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 12:04:17AM +0530, Bharath Vedartham wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> When I run sparse, I get sparse errors. Sparse says "too many errors".
> For example when I run: make C=2 fs/ext4/
> This is the error messages I get for one of the files.
> CHECK fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h:146:38: warning: Unknown escape
> '@'
> ./include/linux/compiler.h:190:8: error: attribute '__gnu_inline__':
> unknown attribute
<snip>
Upgrade your version of sparse, use the version on git.kernel.org and
you should be fine.
good luck!
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-28 18:34 Sparse errors Bharath Vedartham
2019-03-28 18:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-03-28 19:03 ` Ozgur Kara
2019-03-28 19:23 ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-03-28 18:57 ` Ozgur Kara
2019-03-28 19:24 ` Bharath Vedartham
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