Bug 1070485

Summary:	sparse 0.4.5-rc1 as shipped in Fedora is way too noisy on the kernel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	H. Peter Anvin, Intel <h.peter.anvin>
Component:	sparse	Assignee:	Jeff Layton <jlayton>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	jlayton, steved
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Description H. Peter Anvin, Intel 2014-02-26 23:35:08 UTC

Description of problem:
sparse-0.4.5-rc1 which is currently shipped in Fedora generates over 12,000 nuisance warnings on the Linux kernel.  This is fixed upstream in sparse 0.5.0.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sparse-0.4.5.rc1-2.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build the Linux kernel with C=1
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Comment 1 Jeff Layton 2014-02-27 02:31:02 UTC

Sigh...thanks for pointing out that there has been a release. I didn't see any mention of it on the mailing list, nor any tarballs on kernel.org.

World's most secret release? In any case, I used git archive to generate a tarball and am doing package builds now. Stay tuned..

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-02-27 02:33:33 UTC

sparse-0.5.0-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sparse-0.5.0-1.fc19

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-02-28 18:29:22 UTC

Package sparse-0.5.0-1.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing sparse-0.5.0-1.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-3185/sparse-0.5.0-1.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-03-09 04:42:24 UTC

sparse-0.5.0-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.