[PATCH 00/50] staging: comedi: sparse fixes for comedi core

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Wed Sep 19 10:19:25 UTC 2012


On 2012-09-18 19:46, Ian Abbott wrote:
> Introduce a `struct comedi_kcmd` to shadow the `struct comedi_cmd` used
> by the `COMEDI_CMD` and `COMEDI_CMDTEST` ioctls defined in "comedi.h".
> Change the low-level comedi drivers and the comedi core to use the new
> type for the kernel copy of the comedi command.
>
> Patches 48 to 50 fix some other sparse warnings in the comedi core.  One
> of these (patch 49) is an actual bug fix correcting an invalid
> dereference of user-space memory.  (Useful, this "sparse" thing!)

Greg, most of these are redundant now, but patches 48, 49 and 50 are 
independent of the others and still relevant if you want to apply them. 
  Otherwise I'll repost them separately.

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