From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751700AbaB0I1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 03:27:53 -0500 Received: from b.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.144]:1660 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750907AbaB0I1w (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 03:27:52 -0500 Message-ID: <530EF704.7070409@nod.at> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:27:48 +0100 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: The sheer number of sparse warnings in the kernel References: <530E6F76.1070605@zytor.com> <20140226232520.GD22690@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20140226232520.GD22690@pd.tnic> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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