Digging up an old thread to point out I was wrong: On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 1:08 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is not a million-little-commits problem; more like 2 drivers in > > the whole tree have this problem. > > > > Note that this change that Nathan has DOES NOT need to applied to > > every driver that uses MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. Only when the struct has > > no other references other than JUST being passed to > > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() is this a problem. For an allyesconfig, I only > > see 2 instances of this case in the whole tree: > > > > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/169 <- this patch is addressing > > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/178 <- waiting on the > > results of this patch > > > > If you're ok with this change to two drivers, then: > > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> I just landed a fix for this in Clang (https://reviews.llvm.org/rL350776) which will ship soon in Clang 8. Sedat helped test this patch and reported that it removed 41 false-negative warnings https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/232#issuecomment-440006399 -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
