On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 05:21:47AM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 12/07/16 18:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > By now, linux is mostly endian-clean. Enabling endian-ness > > checks for everyone produces about 200 new sparse warnings for me - > > less than 10% over the 2000 sparse warnings already there. > > > > Not a big deal, OTOH enabling this helps people notice > > they are introducing new bugs. > > > > So let's just drop __CHECK_ENDIAN__. Follow-up patches > > can drop distinction between __bitwise and __bitwise__. > > Hello Michael, > > This patch makes a whole bunch of ccflags-y += -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ > statements obsolete. Have you considered to remove these statements? Absolutely. Just waiting for feedback on the idea. > Additionally, there are notable exceptions to the rule that most drivers > are endian-clean, e.g. drivers/scsi/qla2xxx. I would appreciate it if it > would remain possible to check such drivers with sparse without enabling > endianness checks. Have you considered to change #ifdef __CHECK_ENDIAN__ > into e.g. #ifndef __DONT_CHECK_ENDIAN__? > > Thanks, > > Bart. The right thing is probably just to fix these, isn't it? Until then, why not just ignore the warnings? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
