Sparse fixes

Robin Schroer sulamiification at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 13:08:12 EDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 01:55:26PM -0300, Lucas Tanure wrote:
> Hi, If I do :
> 
> $ cat drivers/staging/android/TODO
> TODO:
>         - checkpatch.pl cleanups
>         - *sparse fixes*
>         - rename files to be not so "generic"
>         - make sure things build as modules properly
>         - add proper arch dependencies as needed
>         - audit userspace interfaces to make sure they are sane
> 
> Please send patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg at kroah.com> and Cc:
> Brian Swetland <swetland at google.com>
> 
> 
> *What are sparse fixes ? *
> *It's a tool to run in the kernel code ? *
> 
Yes, it is a code analysis tool that tries to detect logical errors the
compiler won't complain about. See http://kernelnewbies.org/Sparse for
more info.

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Robin Schroer




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