On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 18:35 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The sparse checking for rcu_assign_pointer() was recently upgraded > to reject non-__kernel address spaces. This also rejects __rcu, > which is almost always the right thing to do. However, the uses in > cfg80211_combine_bsses() and cfg80211_bss_update() are legitimate: > They is assigning a pointer to an element from an RCU-protected list, [...] 'They is'? This error is also in the commit messsages for the bridge and mac80211 patches, and maybe others that weren't sent to netdev. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.