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Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:15:15 +0200
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] Documentation/sparse: drop __bitwise__

We dropped __CHECK_ENDIAN__ so __bitwise__ is now an implementation
detail. People should use __bitwise everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
index 8c250e8..e08e6a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
@@ -51,13 +51,6 @@ sure that bitwise types don't get mixed up (little-endian vs big-endian
 vs cpu-endian vs whatever), and there the constant "0" really _is_
 special.
 
-__bitwise__ - to be used for relatively compact stuff (gfp_t, etc.) that
-is mostly warning-free and is supposed to stay that way.  Warnings will
-be generated without __CHECK_ENDIAN__.
-
-__bitwise - noisy stuff; in particular, __le*/__be* are that.  We really
-don't want to drown in noise unless we'd explicitly asked for it.
-
 Using sparse for lock checking
 ------------------------------
 
-- 
MST

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