netdev - Re: [PATCH] net_sched: force endianness annotation

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Date:   Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:17:05 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net_sched: force endianness annotation

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:00 PM Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org> wrote:
>
> While the endiannes is being handled correctly sparse was unhappy with
> the missing annotation as be16_to_cpu()/be32_to_cpu() expects a __be16
> respectively __be32. To mitigate this annotation issue forced annotation
> is introduced. Note that this patch has no impact on the generated binary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>

Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>


Thanks.