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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2014 06:51:16 -0400
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>
To:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
	linux-cifs <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] FS/CIFS: remove obsolete __constant

On Mon, 5 May 2014 06:53:01 +0200
Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 May 2014 18:52:43 -0400
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be> wrote:
> > > Replacing all __constant_foo to foo()
> > > except in smb2status.h (1700 lines to update).
> > >
> > > Cc: linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org
> > > Cc: Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>
> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/cifs/cifsacl.c  |  2 +-
> > >  fs/cifs/cifssmb.c  | 20 ++++++++++----------
> > >  fs/cifs/sess.c     |  2 +-
> > >  fs/cifs/smb2misc.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> > >  fs/cifs/smb2ops.c  |  2 +-
> > >  fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c  |  2 +-
> > >  fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h  | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
> > >  7 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> > > index 7ff866d..54ac0e8 100644
> > > --- a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> > > +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
> > > @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static const struct cifs_sid sid_everyone = {
> > >         1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1}, {0} };
> > >  /* security id for Authenticated Users system group */
> > >  static const struct cifs_sid sid_authusers = {
> > > -       1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5}, {__constant_cpu_to_le32(11)} };
> > > +       1, 1, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5}, {cpu_to_le32(11)} };
> > 
> > 
> > Does the build still work on BE arches with this? I know at one point
> > the above wouldn't compile on those
> > arches. See commit 536abdb0802f, for an explanation.
> 
> Untested on BE but it would mean checkpatch 
> "don't use __constant<foo> functions outside of include/uapi/" stuff is wrong ?

I'm not sure. Maybe the macros have been fixed so that it's no longer a
problem? I think it would be good to test build this on a BE arch
before it's merged to be certain though.

IIRC, I originally saw the problem on s390 builds.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>
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