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Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 16:33:07 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] coverity, static checking etc.
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On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 10:18:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
 > On Friday 09 May 2014 13:07:09 Dave Jones wrote:
 > > I gave a lightning talk on this last year. This year I have a bit more data
 > > so could probably fill a whole session.
 > > 
 > > Last year I had been doing the coverity scans on an almost daily basis
 > > for 2-3 months.  Now that we're a year in, I'd like to share some
 > > results, and show some of the more common trends and bug patterns that
 > > seem to pop up.
 > > 
 > > [ spoiler: For the most part, it's all pretty positive, but we still suck ]
 > > 
 > > It would also be good to have some more discussion about other tools
 > > we could be making more use of.  (Nomination: Dan Carpenter for smatch).
 > 
 > I'd be interested in this. One thing I'd been meaning to ask you about
 > for ages is what I can do to get scan results for ARM (or any other
 > architecture for that matter) specific code. We have a lot of that these
 > days, and as I understand it, the results on the public website are just
 > for x86 builds.

yeah, right now their tool (definitely front-end, but back-end too iirc)
is x86 only.   So unless it's something that CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST would pick up,
it's not going to be in the scans.

	Dave