X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fsparse.txt;h=42f43fa59f24c75c1f553dc5078f88b949302fd9;hb=18229df5b613ed0732a766fc37850de2e7988e43;hp=f9c99c9a54f937616903a5fa5d0b8fee2fd020ae;hpb=fecf3404f4aba6d0edeba31eeb018cbb6326dff2;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt index f9c99c9a54f..42f43fa59f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/sparse.txt +++ b/Documentation/sparse.txt @@ -45,11 +45,15 @@ special. Getting sparse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -With git, you can just get it from +You can get latest released versions from the Sparse homepage at +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/josh/sparse/ - rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git +Alternatively, you can get snapshots of the latest development version +of sparse using git to clone.. -and DaveJ has tar-balls at + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/sparse.git + +DaveJ has hourly generated tarballs of the git tree available at.. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/ @@ -69,10 +73,10 @@ recompiled, or use "make C=2" to run sparse on the files whether they need to be recompiled or not. The latter is a fast way to check the whole tree if you have already built it. -The optional make variable CHECKFLAGS can be used to pass arguments to sparse. -The build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. To perform -endianness checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__: +The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The +build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. To perform endianness +checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__: - make C=2 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" + make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" These checks are disabled by default as they generate a host of warnings.