netdev - Re: sparse checking prevented by "net: fix kmemcheck annotations"

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Message-Id: <20100301.183955.258219526.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:39:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sparse checking prevented by "net: fix kmemcheck annotations"

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:18:06 +0100

> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> [PATCH] net: fix protocol sk_buff field
>> 
>> Commit e992cd9b72a18 (kmemcheck: make bitfield annotations truly no-ops
>> when disabled) allows us to revert a workaround we did in the past to
>> not add holes in sk_buff structure.
>> 
>> This patch partially reverts commit 14d18a81b5171
>> (net: fix kmemcheck annotations) so that sparse doesnt complain:
>> 
>> include/linux/skbuff.h:357:41: error: invalid bitfield specifier for
>> type restricted __be16.
> 
> Great, very appreciated.

Applied, thanks everyone.
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