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

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Message-ID: <20081106173944.GA23398@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:39:44 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:33:27PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:38:46AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > Yes.  And if someone ran sparse over the code both the initial error
> > and this varaint would be trivial to spot..
> > 
> 
> That's how Aneesh found it.  :-)

Heh, okay.  We really should try to find some annotations that run
sparse with endian checking by default for those parts of the tree
where it makes sense..

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