On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 04:29:39 +0200 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. Out of curiousity: Where do most of those warnings show up? > > 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__. > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Linus, could you ack this for upstream? If yes I'll > merge through my tree as a replacement for enabling > this just for virtio. > > include/uapi/linux/types.h | 4 ---- > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/types.h b/include/uapi/linux/types.h > index acf0979..41e5914 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/types.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/types.h > @@ -23,11 +23,7 @@ > #else > #define __bitwise__ > #endif > -#ifdef __CHECK_ENDIAN__ > #define __bitwise __bitwise__ > -#else > -#define __bitwise > -#endif > > typedef __u16 __bitwise __le16; > typedef __u16 __bitwise __be16; FWIW, I like this better than just enabling it for the virtio code. -- 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
