On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 09:10:02PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:47 PM Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > From: David Marchand [mailto:david.marchand@redhat.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:48 PM
> > > To: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>; Mcnamara, John <
> > john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> > > Cc: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Thomas
> > Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Jerin Jacob <
> > jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>; Akhil, Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>;
> > Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>; Xu, Qian Q <
> > qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>; Maxime Coquelin <
> > maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>; Shahaf
> > Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo <
> > pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 28/3/2019
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 1:04 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Coverity
> > > --------
> > >
> > > * Coverity is back on, John run a new scan with latest code:
> > >   https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit
> > >
> > > The "components" mappings seem quite old/invalid to me:
> > > - we still have the old pmds path à la lib/librte_pmd_XXX
> > > - pmd_bond points to an drivers/net/bond/.
> > > - pmd_mlx4 points to drivers/net/ixgbe/.
> > >
> > > And others catches almost everything (400k loc).
> > >
> > > John, can you fix it?
> >
> > Yes. Let me know the mappings/changes you want to make and I can implement
> > them or we can make you and admin and you can do it.
> >
> 
> I don't particularly care. I could do it, but this would be best effort
> anyway.
> The question is more: do we want to use coverity on the mid-, long-term ?
>
I think it's worth continuing to use. It's been useful over the years we've
been using it thus far.

/Bruce