Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix sparse -Wbitwise warnings.

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Hi,

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:29, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:

> Of course that's less efficient though since "mask" is probably constant..
> so now the endian conversion changed from compile-time to run-time.
> 
> Would something like
> 
>  	( ( EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_feature_compat & cpu_to_le32(mask) ) != 0)
> 
> be enough to satisfy sparse?

Yes, but it breaks other places: there are a few places where callers
actually want the real return value from the "&", so that (for example)
they can tell the user which feature failed the compatibility test.

--Stephen

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