linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rds: ib: force endiannes annotation

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Message-ID: <20190429122210.GB32474@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 29 Apr 2019 05:22:10 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Cc:     Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>,
        Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rds: ib: force endiannes annotation

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 01:02:31PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> ... are some bitwise ops on the values (bitwise ops are legal in any
>  endianness) and incrementation of the pointers (which cares only about
>  the pointee size, not type).

Oh, true.  That is why the underlying annotation is called __bitwise :)
I'll take my previous comment back.