On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:11:23PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > > 1. Where is __CHECKER__ defined? I did a grep of an entire 2.6 kernel > tree, and it's not defined in any source file, header file, or make > file. I see a few #ifdef's, but no #define __CHECKER__ or anything like > that. I think it's in a makefile for when C=1 on the make command line. Anyway, you don't need to worry about this. > 2. What does address_space(1) mean? It's a sparse thing. > 3. Is __CHECKER__ related to the 2.6 support for the "sparse" tool? Is > it related to the C=1 make command line parm? Yes. See the sparse documention in the Documentation/sparse.txt file for more info on this. You should be running this on all of your kernel code. Good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
