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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