Re: Why sparse does not support context tracking?

Johannes Berg
2015-05-04T13:39:03Z

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Riesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to instrument my code (a kernel driver) with __must_hold hints
> and noticed that they don't really work: a definitely broken code caused
> no errors from sparse.

> Revert the context tracking code

> So it seems that the code has problems with different contexts. Still, it seems
> a bit heavy-handed to remove it completely (assuming it worked, of course).

It didn't really work. It had a lot of issues that were too big for my
little wireless-focused brain :)

johannes