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Date:	Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:42:34 +0100
From:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
To:	v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org
Cc:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Andy Walls <awalls@...ix.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] dvb: usb vendor_ids/product_ids are __le16

On Friday 14 November 2008 22:08:45 Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:55 -0500, Andy Walls wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:44 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > But I'd suggest
> > > that if you want to improve the maintainability of this code that
> > > someone in v4l-land start running sparse regularly
> >
> > For those who don't get the daily 'bot mail on the
> > v4l-dvb-maintainer list, Hans Verkuil's v4l-dvb build 'bot runs
> > sparse builds daily for all of v4l-dvb land:
> >
> > http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/v4l-dvb-maintainer/2008-November/00859
> >5.html
> >
> > Although developers won't see waring/error outputs from those runs
> > until after their changes are merged in the main v4l-dvb repo.
> >
> > The latest kernel this automatic sparse build compiles is currently
> > 2.26.28-rc4.  I've used it to monitor the cx18 driver for sparse
> > build errors so I could address them - it's quite convenient.
>
> Does Hans' build turn on __CHECK_ENDIAN__? That would help as well.

Now it does. Thanks for the tip!

	Hans
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