On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 07:31:14PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Seconded, I'm also interested in general in whether people still think
> sparse is useful and we should give it attention, or should focus more
> on really getting everything into gcc - we have a number of sparse
> warnings in very low-level header files that get used everywhere, for
> example the one I just fixed in [1] or the one I tried to fix but that
> ended up being buggy ([2]), but there doesn't seem to be much attention
> to these during the patch submission etc.

I certainly do all my builds with sparse and routinely find it
identifies useful issues, though obviously getting the same capabilities
in the compiler directly would be just as useful.