netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: clean up some sparse endianness warnings in ipv6.h

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jlayton@...marydata.com
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: clean up some sparse endianness warnings in
 ipv6.h

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...marydata.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:55:46 -0400

> sparse is throwing warnings when building sunrpc modules due to some
> endianness shenanigans in ipv6.h. Specifically:
> 
>   CHECK   net/sunrpc/addr.c
> include/net/ipv6.h:573:17: warning: restricted __be64 degrades to integer
> include/net/ipv6.h:577:34: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
> include/net/ipv6.h:573:17: warning: restricted __be64 degrades to integer
> include/net/ipv6.h:577:34: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
> 
> Sprinkle some endianness fixups to silence them. These should all get
> fixed up at compile time, so I don't think this will add any extra work
> to be done at runtime.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...marydata.com>

Applied, thank you.
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