Hi Joe, >>> Are you referring to the static code analyser sparse that is invoked >>> through? >> You have to explicitly enable endian checking, it's not on by >> default. > > There don't seem to be thousands of warnings anymore. > > Maybe it's time to default enable it when using C=? > > from: Documentation/sparse.txt: > > The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The > build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. To perform endianness > checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__: > > make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" > > These checks are disabled by default as they generate a host of warnings. actually a few subsystems use this in their Makefile: subdir-ccflags-y += -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ We could start with that to enable endian checks by default in various places. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
