Just forwarding a question I saw on linux-fsdevel: | From: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> | Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:05:04 -0500 | Subject: Noisy Sparse warnings | To: LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, | linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Precedence: bulk | List-ID: <linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org> | X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | I have been getting the following sparse warnings repeatedly on my | current Ubutu (17.10) when compiling the current mainline kernel: | | ./arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h:144:38: warning: Unknown escape '@' | ./include/linux/string.h:239:1: error: attribute 'gnu_inline': unknown attribute | | I get the same sparse error whether I use the default sparse that | Ubuntu ships (0.5.0) or the current sparse (0.5.2-rc1) | | Ideas? -- Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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
