Re: [PATCH next 11/14] bit: Strengthen compile-time tests in GENMASK() and BIT()

[Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>]

Adding the relevant parties to the discussion:

+To: Al Viro
+To: Chris Li

On 23/01/2026 at 02:25, Philip Li wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:33:37AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:41:22 +0800
>>> kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>>>>    kernel/kthread.c: note: in included file (through include/linux/bitmap.h, include/linux/cpumask.h, arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h, ...):
>>>>>> include/linux/find.h:209:45: sparse: sparse: Variable length array is used.  
>>>
>>> Can we stop sparse complaining about sizeof(VLA) ?
>>
>> First of all, the LKP should install the fork of sparse by Al Viro. That will
>> fix tons of warnings that are related to modules and speed up the process
>> itself.
> 
> Thanks Andy, i will switch to the repo from Al Viro for sparse.

Al Viro's fork just adds 8 commit on top of the upstream sparse repo.
Wouldn't it be possible to just merge those?

That would be much less confusing.


Yours sincerely,
Vincent Mailhol