From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:51:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530E8C2E.7080307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393462087.24588.50.camel@joe-AO722>
On 02/26/2014 04:48 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> err.h could also return bool instead of long for the
> IS_ERR and IS_ERR_OR_NULL tests.
This is definitely true... although we should check that that doesn't
make the code worse as this is used *all over* the kernel.
> Maybe something like this could be useful.
>
> Shut up the unsigned<->signed pointer conversions
> and implicit conversions in the Makefile.
Sounds like two separate patches to me.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 22:49 The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-26 23:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-27 8:27 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-02-26 23:28 ` Greg KH
2014-02-26 23:29 ` Greg KH
2014-02-26 23:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-26 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 1:19 ` Josh Boyer
2014-02-27 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-04 23:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2014-02-27 0:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 1:34 ` Greg KH
2014-02-27 2:09 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 3:15 ` Dave Jones
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Greg KH
2014-02-27 10:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-02-27 1:52 ` Peter Hurley
2014-02-27 4:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 4:31 ` Greg KH
2014-02-27 9:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-02-27 0:48 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 0:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-02-27 1:06 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 1:33 ` [PATCH] err.h: Use bool for IS_ERR and IS_ERR_OR_NULL Joe Perches
2014-02-27 2:03 ` [PATCH] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning Joe Perches
2014-02-27 2:08 ` [RFC PATCH] Makefile: sparse - don't check sizeof(bool) Joe Perches
2014-02-27 2:28 ` [PATCH] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning Josh Triplett
2014-02-27 2:53 ` [PATCH V2] " Joe Perches
2014-02-27 2:58 ` Josh Triplett
2014-02-27 3:19 ` [PATCH V3] " Joe Perches
2014-02-27 3:29 ` [PATCH V2] " H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 3:38 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 3:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 8:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-27 15:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 15:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-27 15:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 16:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-27 16:10 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-02-27 16:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 17:06 ` James Hogan
2014-02-27 4:00 ` Ben Pfaff
2014-02-27 4:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 4:26 ` Ben Pfaff
2014-02-27 4:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 20:22 ` Christopher Li
2014-02-27 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-27 20:39 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 20:55 ` Christopher Li
2014-02-27 21:49 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 20:44 ` Christopher Li
2014-02-27 21:00 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 21:03 ` Christopher Li
2014-02-27 21:41 ` Christopher Li
2014-02-27 9:56 ` The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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