linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux/types.h: Restore the ability to disable sparse endianness checks

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:57:35 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>
To:     "mst@...hat.com" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:     "hch@....de" <hch@....de>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/types.h: Restore the ability to disable sparse
 endianness checks

On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 16:34 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I don't see how it'll help make things better. OTOH if the specific
> drivers are tagged in the makefile, they can be gradually moved out to
> staging or something to help trigger action.

Do you really want to move drivers like qla2xxx to staging? That driver is
important to multiple enterprise distro's.

Bart.