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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:56:53 +0000
Subject: Re: drivers/net/vxlan.c:676:53: sparse: incorrect type in argument 5 (different base types)
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:51:14AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Which version of sparse is this? I see no errors with the current version 4.4.

The endian checking is not turned on by default.

http://lwn.net/Articles/205624/

regards,
dan carpenter