On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:52:39PM +0000, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote: > On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> 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.
The info on how to run sparse is in INSTALL. You can add some details, if you like. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
