linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel: add -D__CHECK_ENDIAN_

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Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:57:33 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel: add -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ by default

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:33:01PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> The noise level with endian checking is getting to the point where
> having this enabled by default wouldn't be too bad.  If this were to
> go in for the 2.6.30 devel cycle it may motivate the last sections that
> are still particularly noisy (sound/, drivers/scsi/ come to mind)

In which case you should juse kill the CHECK_ENDIAN ifdef and make
the checking versions the default.  Also Documentation/sparse.txt
needs some updates for this change.

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