On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:17:58PM -0800, Christopher Li wrote:
> e.g. sparse has not way to know some function only get called with interrupt
> disabled (or some lock already hold). So it assume interrupt is still
> enable and generate wrong warnings. Another example is that some helper
> function will wrap the locking function. Complain about the exit with locking
> hold is wrong.
>
> I am hoping adding the cross function checking will reduce those false positive.
> Any way, it need more information to reduce false positive.
>
> I am still working on the cross function checking. May be it will become
> more useful one day.
I have some stuff in that direction, but it take some resurrecting...
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