On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:43:51PM -0800, Christopher Li wrote: > 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. > mm, yes, I guess this can be a good-enough solution :) > > > >> > 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. > It seems those non-standard attributes have some associated costs that I'm not aware of; I can see the implicit trade-off then. > Chris Thanks for the sincere help. -- Darwish http://darwish.07.googlepages.com -- 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
