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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sparse - make __CHECK_ENDIAN__ default enabled?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:39:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203547186.25307.52.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080220220326.GA22328@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:03 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Harvey.
> 
> Can I ask you to look into the worst offenders so we
> can make -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ enabled per default
> in the kernel.
> Or maybe we should do it anyway?

>From a quick test, the same places that spew sparse warnings, spew
lots more sparse warnings, the places that are not so bad....are not
so bad afterwards either.

There's still so many of the trivial warnings that maybe it's not the
right time for this yet.  Ask me again when we get to the 2.6.26
timeframe, we'll see how many I've gotten rid of by then.

Harvey



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 22:03 Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-20 22:18 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-23 11:23   ` [PATCH 0/2] firewire: endinaness warnings (was Re: sparse - make __CHECK_ENDIAN__ default enabled?) Stefan Richter
2008-02-23 11:24     ` [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix Stefan Richter
2008-02-23 11:36       ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-23 12:12       ` Stefan Richter
2008-03-01 12:36         ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-27 19:58       ` Jarod Wilson
2008-02-27 20:08         ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-27 20:21           ` Jarod Wilson
2008-02-28  2:40         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-28  3:21           ` Jarod Wilson
2008-02-28  6:25             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-28 18:42               ` Jarod Wilson
2008-02-28 23:26                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-29  5:48                   ` Jarod Wilson
2008-02-29  6:00                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-29 11:26                     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-02-29 11:52                       ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-29 21:49                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-29 15:34                       ` Jarod Wilson
2008-03-03  9:19                     ` Gabriel Paubert
2008-03-03 14:35                       ` Stefan Richter
2008-03-05 22:59                         ` Gabriel Paubert
2008-03-05 23:26                           ` Stefan Richter
2008-03-06 20:23                             ` Gabriel Paubert
2008-02-28  3:33         ` Jarod Wilson
2008-02-28  2:41       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-28  8:41         ` Stefan Richter
2008-02-23 11:24     ` [PATCH 2/2] firewire: endianess annotations Stefan Richter
2008-03-01  5:23     ` [PATCH 0/2] firewire: endinaness warnings (was Re: sparse - make __CHECK_ENDIAN__ default enabled?) Jarod Wilson
2008-02-20 22:39 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-02-20 22:51   ` sparse - make __CHECK_ENDIAN__ default enabled? Sam Ravnborg

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