netdev - sparse noise due to patch "net: fix kmemcheck annotations"

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Date:	Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:34 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: sparse noise due to patch "net: fix kmemcheck annotations"

Hi Eric,

with above mentioned patch, committed as
14d18a81b5171d4433e41129619c75748b4f4d26, you changed

struct sk_buff {
	...
	__be16 protocol;
	...
}
to
	__be16 protocol:16;

This introduces the following warning from sparse:

include/linux/skbuff.h:357:41: error: invalid bitfield specifier for
type restricted __be16.

So, one checker satisfied, another disturbed?  Any idea how to get this
sparse-clean again?
-- 
Stefan Richter
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