Re: Request VFIO inclusion in linux-next

Alex Williamson
2012-06-27T19:23:23Z

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 15:37 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:55:52PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > VFIO has been kicking around for well over a year now and has been
> > posted numerous times for review. The pre-requirements are finally
> > available in linux-next (or will be in the 20120626 build) so I'd like
> > to request a new branch be included in linux-next with a goal of being
> > accepted into v3.6.
> >
>
> Could you run Sparse over the driver?
> http://lwn.net/Articles/205624/
>
> It reports a bunch of endian problems. Some are definitely bugs
> like:
> *prev |= cpu_to_le32((u32)epos << 20);

Done. Mostly just adding annotation, but it did find a bug or two.
Should be cleaned up in tomorrow's next. Thanks for the report,

Alex