On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:48:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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. Good catch, fixed in four patches. Yeah, English can be a bit unfriendly at times to text reuse. The s/It/They/ should have been s/It is/They are/. ;-) Thanx, Paul