Re: Sparse endian issues with patches.

[Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:32 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2007  22:18 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > Attaching below patch that fix the sparse warning for ext4.
> 
> It would be good to also fix the "raw" access of split 48-bit and 64-bit
> fields as I previously sent to the list.  A new typedef for these fields
> (on disk) would ensure that they are not accessed directly and give
> compiler warnings if new patches don't have the right macro usage.
> 
> > -				if (mnt_count != sbi->s_es->s_mnt_count) {
> > +				if (mnt_count != le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_mnt_count)) {
> 
> That overflows 80 columns, as do several other lines.
> > 
> 

checkpatch.pl should catched this... The version in ext4-patch queue
should be clean now.


> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.
> 
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