Re: New and bogus(!) warning produced by sparse.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 09:29:53 EST




On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>
> I just did a git pull on sparse and it produced a new and I believe
> bogus warning when trying to assign a value to a bit field member. The
> warning is:

Thanks, that's indeed very bogus.

I see why it happens, will fix sparse momentarily (btw, for sparse bugs,
use "linux-sparse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" rather than LKML - since this is
clearly not a kernel problem ;)

Linus
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