linux-kernel - Re: sparse - make __CHECK_ENDIAN_

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Message-ID: <20080220225132.GA22694@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:51:32 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sparse - make __CHECK_ENDIAN__ default enabled?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:39:46PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:03 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Hi Harvey.
> > 
> > Can I ask you to look into the worst offenders so we
> > can make -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ enabled per default
> > in the kernel.
> > Or maybe we should do it anyway?
> 
> >From a quick test, the same places that spew sparse warnings, spew
> lots more sparse warnings, the places that are not so bad....are not
> so bad afterwards either.
> 
> There's still so many of the trivial warnings that maybe it's not the
> right time for this yet.  Ask me again when we get to the 2.6.26
> timeframe, we'll see how many I've gotten rid of by then.

OK - thanks for looking into it.

	Sam
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