On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:41:10PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >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. > > I can't find sparse.txt (or *sparse*) in any 2.6 kernel tree I have. Look in the latest -bk tree, it's there. > I > can't find any reference to 'sparse' in any file in Documentation/*, nor > can I find any .txt files in the sparse repository itself, nor any > documentation in that repository that references __CHECKER__. I can't > find any documentation on __CHECKER__ or sparse on the internet, either. Read Linus's various postings about it, and how to use it, in the lkml archives. > I did find the linux-sparse mailing list at > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparse&r=1&w=2, but as I expected, > I found no documentation searching its archives. What, you expect documentation for a useful kernel tool? :) greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/