From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [198.175.65.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5173235B142; Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.175.65.19 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769156649; cv=none; b=YEs0Es2ZfdKNzf93wmT06VaCeSG7mF5vmhL/y3ABTR3dkkwQOeCN9glbL/XJ7lKxQXrEfrK6B5An7t53BphOm8EQRFDuriCgea45oIcbyvzYQE5viqtOXkskkvghwtl8oYb0yw9O7bXrp+ERzkgJO83T84XAJhtZ7Gz7frZ4mO8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769156649; c=relaxed/simple; bh=dwMlkmjcBaCYcjWa46P1uHRBsYlOiR+4SOQZ1svV6MQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=mL0Lr1fudthpO6Kpj55vbUC/1qixlImzc9IL059z6fAzl9SluaBUex2r6huUWJmcIOtw3R2c32YlFT5PLiKfYAm/R5w14Hme2rmHxfzcAzw6zXAj7FLWlJldM8kauyJ0d78y20vXmKmaVlpeuTgfGMo3MK4vac7ih11ZBOStACo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.intel.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b=B53xQv/1; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.175.65.19 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b="B53xQv/1" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1769156648; x=1800692648; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references: mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=dwMlkmjcBaCYcjWa46P1uHRBsYlOiR+4SOQZ1svV6MQ=; b=B53xQv/18BeF5U46UOID82D+SCTOI7Uz8ppDUGzHqSKmnW2VDK23QD2G vHLCEpIyfcVR+n28sqri86moMO/4u6mEg3BntbUNQgyeihLNzxnPUMjr0 QUTvQUgFe6KWhHogDiJ9ecKDrl4+LLTR5PLh5ll1gCibGTGJsi7718RgK 8lzMgZUC5xUdHQFpm+tz6k49WxodXNv/qW/vMMaKI3zYill4NQn15+RHT iRtk2W/8hSHM2bwE4qlM+MQjLxaOMAaSOGT16oZBYHziYaGrL6NZCN/8i AWcTOppfg08wVbuHTTkT/HII4pboeYVLWf4hsbwAJiew3Beg0mAbkaCTC w==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: q3TkLD7GQ6KwcpPYaWDLPw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: KmH/0QjLSPu29Ab4tNSSRw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11679"; a="70318208" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.21,248,1763452800"; d="scan'208";a="70318208" Received: from fmviesa006.fm.intel.com ([10.60.135.146]) by orvoesa111.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 23 Jan 2026 00:24:07 -0800 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: lkoPECn7TsODORNe+iM/Hw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: Z3qn46K0TxqDntbM2syu4g== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.21,248,1763452800"; d="scan'208";a="206874169" Received: from rvuia-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.245.244.112]) by fmviesa006-auth.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 23 Jan 2026 00:24:03 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:24:01 +0200 From: Andy Shevchenko To: Al Viro Cc: Vincent Mailhol , Philip Li , Chris Li , David Laight , kernel test robot , Nathan Chancellor , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Mathieu Desnoyers , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yury Norov , Jani Nikula , Kees Cook , Andrew Morton , oe-kbuild-all@lists.linux.dev, Linux Memory Management List Subject: Re: [PATCH next 11/14] bit: Strengthen compile-time tests in GENMASK() and BIT() Message-ID: References: <20260121145731.3623-12-david.laight.linux@gmail.com> <202601221237.soiAkwkN-lkp@intel.com> <20260122103337.26473d1c@pumpkin> <20260123082027.GJ3183987@ZenIV> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260123082027.GJ3183987@ZenIV> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - c/o Alberga Business Park, 6 krs, Bertel Jungin Aukio 5, 02600 Espoo On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 08:20:27AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > 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? I don't know, but upstream sparse haven't applied any solution for MODULE*("FOO") stuff, nor reaction on my ping in that discussion (I did it like week or so ago). > 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. Thanks for doing all this! > I've done quite a bit of sparse work over the years, but I would rather > prefer somebody else as overall maintainer, TYVM... -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko