linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian

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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:11:44 +0100
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian

Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2008 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> > I suspect that you want to do the le16_to_cpu() and _then_
> > add the 1.  Otherwise, adding 1 to a different byte order
> > value won't do quite what is expected or hoped for...
> 
> Yes.  And if someone ran sparse over the code both the initial error
> and this varaint would be trivial to spot..

I think the problem is, that sparse now requires
__CHECK_ENDIAN__
to check for endianess problems. Seems that lots of people are not aware of 
this.

Christian
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