> -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:19 PM > To: Stephen Hemminger > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Coverity policy for upstream (base) drivers. > > 2015-11-12 14:05, Stephen Hemminger: > > Looking at the Coverity scan for DPDK, it looks like all the base > > drivers are marked to be ignored. > > > > Although the changes to base drivers should not be done directly > > through DPDK list. I think it is still valuable to have these driver > > scanned and notify (badger) the vendors to fix there code. > > > > Since lots of the bugs could be there, just blindly ignoring warnings > > and issues is being naive. > > I think the Coverity setup is outdated: > ignore_driver_1 /lib/librte_pmd_e1000/e1000/.* Yes Remove > ignore_driver_2 /lib/librte_pmd_fm10k/base/.* Yes Remove > ignore_driver_3 /lib/librte_pmd_i40e/i40e/.* Yes Remove > ignore_driver_4 /lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe/.* Yes Remove > > These directories don't exist anymore.
Hi Thomas, The directories don't exist anymore but code from those directories is still in the Coverity database from prior to the restructuring. There is a new rule to ignore the new base drivers: ignore_base_code /drivers/net/*/base/* Yes John --
