Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel

Richard Weinberger
2014-02-27T08:27:53Z

Am 27.02.2014 00:25, schrieb Borislav Petkov:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:49:26PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> What do we need to do to actually make our tools be able to do work
>> for us? Newbie projects to clean up?
>
> It certainly would be a much better way for newbies to get involved than
> all the useless OCD-jerking off that floats back and forth nowadays. And
> who knows, newbies might *actually* even learn something while doing
> that.
>
> Btw, rw could help with the newbie project, I think.

Yeah, on #kernelnewbies newbies often ask how they can help.
Maybe a short info on http://kernelnewbies.org/ how to deal with sparse
would help too.

Thanks,
//richard