linux-kernel - Re: sparse warning about endianness mismatch on 0xffff assignment

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Message-ID: <20150416205739.GY889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:57:39 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Sathya Perla <Sathya.Perla@...lex.Com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sparse warning about endianness mismatch on 0xffff assignment

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:04:40AM +0000, Sathya Perla wrote:
> What would be the best way of fixing this warning?
> 
> a) __le16 var = cpu_to_le16(0xFFFF);

That would do just fine - it's a constant expression, actually.
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