From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] linux/types.h: Restore the ability to disable sparse endianness checks Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:22:31 +0300 Message-ID: <20171023182231.GA16127@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20171016172633.29290-1-bart.vanassche@wdc.com> <20171016224241-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <1508189195.2493.55.camel@wdc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1508189195.2493.55.camel-Sjgp3cTcYWE@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: "mst-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" , "torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org" , "linux-scsi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org" , "akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:26:36PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 22:57 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:26:33AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: <...> > > > > Examples are drivers/scsi/qla2xxx and drivers/infiniband/hw/nes. > > > > These seem to be actively maintained. So post a patch, maintainers > > can look at the spec to help make sure annotations are right. > > I don't have the time to delve deep in these two and the many other kernel > drivers that are not endianness clean. So please stop telling *me* that *I* > have to fix the endianness annotations in these drivers. With all my respect, but authors of drivers/infiniband/hw/nes are not showing any attempts to make that driver endianness clean. It works for them and they have no worries about static analyzer tools output, so why Bart should do it? Thanks --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAlnuM2cACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKd9RRAAjCkh9Ux2KBFZmp5vmDQ9e3GGE6bwWOIDEb3WFDwsXsMVTdQBMX4xB8f9 +2NH3LVr0is1wTYrW3xjlhcoCH9eqsKSB2xU8j3Uqc5U27STxHlQqSLh0/wQ5lH0 FoUUVLOiai99h3VhsME20LS/Wv3mr57YNte0evrVLTwx/Q44GI2S/3UcmnwXzjS2 YGwRAsVS1LtDnktZkxHZv1VjQ3cVpsCsI8Dv+MYuLLQ+eI7vfgyEVN9Y0x3K5wUC Xcdsax//MdRq0QKyBO2DGmXxSgwV2SueTzNfi8jFJi8SKAGdK3T0Cnpll8foinAh 5gRvO+tPujojsfIajFxii5yXkQi+vma6b9IimR8lkLwy/4zTiWQ2a7YoTt4Q3sCE 3vNT6aWqAI5jvpUdFkgr9Y0/XGS9rxvomgeFGqASYskzOlt6WHbswM0+OylYhFJG gMMiv9f+sI+d5OqMp7E/HT8h8bzy/uW9loE37ULrgzS93Bi7JKEqKO4edsuIPM3w xgQ2qkjCpLYnfI7iDt8a6Gvm7ovkOc7v3gftF59/1quQsR0wB3yXRH/ZPGgSAl7k 3bf05/ymePg/T7WZfEwONW5MwYIBPQ9neUgp45qWH/30fxdv/kdryN8zK5u9pf60 4g2kMJEn8Jf1IRtlnCUriBpgjX2sSFU2/eRMfudo1W90t/NULDw= =zmj1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html