On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:23:43AM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: >> This will run on both userspace and kernel for the files that need to >> be recompiled. The userspace version is a little bit more >> temperamental because sparse requires header annotations to work >> properly and userspace headers don't generally have those. OVS has a >> special annotated set but I've only seen them work on Debian. If you >> use C=2 instead then it will run on all files (regardless of >> compilation status) on just the kernel. > > I think the main reason they only work on Debian (and only on squeeze so > far) is just because that's what I use, and I wrote them. I don't think > it would be too hard to adapt them to other systems, if the people who > use those systems would take a little time to do it.
I was thinking the same thing, let me see what I can do about it. I was also thinking of submitting a FAQ entry with the info on how to run sparse. I'll look into both of these once I rework the VXLAN patch. Thanks, Kyle _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
