linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubifs: endian handling fixes and annotations

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Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:44:42 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	dedekind@...radead.org
Cc:	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: endian handling fixes and annotations

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:22 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 11:52 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > > fs/ubifs/sb.c:300:19: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> > > > fs/ubifs/sb.c:300:19:    expected restricted __le64 [usertype] ctime_sec
> > > > fs/ubifs/sb.c:300:19:    got int [signed] [assigned] tmp
> > > > fs/ubifs/sb.c:301:19: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> > > > fs/ubifs/sb.c:301:19:    expected restricted __le64 [usertype] mtime_sec
> > > > fs/ubifs/sb.c:301:19:    got int [signed] [assigned] tmp
> > > 
> > > ... snip ...
> > > 
> > > thanks for the patch. It's shame we did not fix this ourselves. We did
> > > run sparse before submitting UBIFS and did not see these warnings.
> > > Probably sparse has been improved recently. Anyway, thank you, I'll look
> > > closer at your patch and apply it to ubifs-2.6.git.
> > > 
> > 
> > Run sparse with -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ to see these warnings.
> 
> Any idea why this is not default?
> 

Currently the build gets a bit verbose with this turned on, I've been
working to get the noise down a bit, but perhaps still a ways off from
turning this on.

Harvey

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