On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 20:44 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:24:22PM +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote: > > Perhaps checkpatch would be a better gatekeeper for new code. OTOH, > > some of those nested externs have already been eliminated, so at > > least for now the warning is serving a purpose since it is scrubbing > > existing code. > > Yep, eliminating would be optimal. If it is in checkpatch, it is much > easier to manage. checkpatch is simply a regex tester, so it's only appropriate if the false-positive false-negative rate is acceptable. Coccinelle may be better at whatever test is being considered. -- 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
