On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 12:04:17AM +0530, Bharath Vedartham wrote: > Hey all, > > When I run sparse, I get sparse errors. Sparse says "too many errors". > For example when I run: make C=2 fs/ext4/ > This is the error messages I get for one of the files. > CHECK fs/ext4/ioctl.c > ./arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h:146:38: warning: Unknown escape > '@' > ./include/linux/compiler.h:190:8: error: attribute '__gnu_inline__': > unknown attribute <snip> Upgrade your version of sparse, use the version on git.kernel.org and you should be fine. good luck! greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies