Re: [Ksummit-discuss] coverity, static checking etc.

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:08:49PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2014, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > > I'd also like to nominate Christopher Li, for Sparse.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Just for the sake of datapoint -- running 'make C=1' before every git push 
> is part of my automated workflow. So yes, I am routinely using sparse.

Same here - I try to run sparse every time I apply a new patch.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry