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Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: add FIONREAD support
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
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On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:47 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> But sparse will spit out warnings with code like this :(

Why?  p is annotated __user.

> Actually, the whole inotify patch probably isn't sparse clean...

Probably not (I don't run sparse myself) but I did try to annotate all
the user pointers with __user.

If you--or anyone else who uses sparse--sends me any warnings, I'll fix
them.

	Robert Love