On Feb 1 2008 23:40, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >> checkpatch does not parse C, it uses heuristical regexes. >> >> That makes it very different from sparse or the section mismatch >> finder which do not output false positives. > >Unfortunately I most correct you. Section mismatch checks seldoms finds >what I would call 'real' bugs that causes oops - but it happen. >It is mostly fasle positives that needs workaround, but also a great >deal of missing annotation resulting in additional memory saved. >And then occasionally a bad reference in some error handling that >seldom trigger but when it does it would oops. What I meant with false positives:= modpost warning about something that is not true. I have not yet seen such happening where code is obviously correct by the eyeball, but modpost gets it wrong. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
