[dpdk-dev] Coverity policy for upstream (base) drivers.

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:21:24 +0000
"Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara at intel.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net]
> > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 6:49 PM
> > To: Mcnamara, John
> > Cc: Stephen Hemminger; Thomas Monjalon; dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Coverity policy for upstream (base) drivers.
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:12:04AM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> > > If people haven't already done so I would urge them to sign up and
> > view/fix the defects.
> > >
> > >     https://scan.coverity.com/users/sign_up
> > >     https://scan.coverity.com/projects/4005 (DPDK)
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > I got signed up. Thanks for spearheading this.
> > 
> > From past experience squashing SA defects on my own code and several
> > previous employers I would like to recommend we band together and
> > configure a SonarQube instance.
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I definitely be interested in getting SonarQube working with DPDK. We can sync up on this as soon as the 2.2 bush fires die down.
> 
> John.

It looked like SonarQube was both non-free for doing any real scans,
and the default C rules were oriented towards a completely different
Windows oriented coding style.