On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:27:36 -0400 Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:

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patch-by-patch W=1 C=1 should be good enough to catch the problems.  

Thanks - this helps. We didnt pay good attention to
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
Only thing that is missing now is the mention of C=1 in the doc. Patch
to the doc acceptable?
Also a note about false positives in sparse output (there were a few
in the warnings from the bot) would be apropos.

Um. Maybe.. Sparse generates more false positives than good warnings
lately :( We'd have to add some extra info like "Note that sparse
is known to generate false-positive warnings, if you think that the
warning generated with C=1 is bogus, ignore it and note that fact
in the commit message".

I don't like documenting things which aren't clear-cut :(

I'm pretty sure you have pure W=1 warnings here, too.