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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:11:19AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> > Al Viro's fork just adds 8 commit on top of the upstream sparse repo.
> > Wouldn't it be possible to just merge those?
> 
> Ideally yes, but you also should kick the distro's asses to update it, and
> the sparse should bump its version...
> 
> > That would be much less confusing.
> 
> Seems Al become a sparse maintainer de facto :-)

Huh?  What happened to Chris?  FWIW, I do have some followups to that series
sitting locally; need to get that finished (mostly for proper __VA_OPT__
handling; that got stalled on the lovely corner cases where the interplay
with side effects of macro expansion is really nasty - gcc and clang do
not agree and gcc is arguably buggy) and posted.

I've done quite a bit of sparse work over the years, but I would rather
prefer somebody else as overall maintainer, TYVM...