On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The case I faced was kernel's main entrance C method which should only be > jumped to from bootstrap asm code. I think a declaration in such case will > only give bogus function usage impressions. How about give it some prototype which clearly indicate the function should be only call from boot strap? e.g. BOOT_STRAP_ENTRY(function_name) which expand it to a function prototype. > >> > Unfortunately the current `-Wno-decl' solution is a bit extreme: it >> > turns off a very useful sparse feature (by design). >> >> Right, the problem is that sparse can't tell which functions are used in >> asm files and only skip warning on those. >> > > Would proposing an __attribute__ for such case be accepted in concept? I don't thing it justify more non-stander attribute, which is for-the-sake-of-sparse thing as well. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
