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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: check endianness/types in sparse runs
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:09:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203624563.26341.15.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080221200620.GA29352@uranus.ravnborg.org>

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> > In any case, I would love to have __CHECK_ENDIAN__ enabled by default at
> > least on the wireless code (just caught another bug with it...)
> 
> I should then add support for something like:
> 
> checkflags-y := -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__
> 
> to match the style of the rest.
> 
> I do not like all the buried in assumption about the
> global variables.

That might be good. I retract my patch for now then.

> But I would prefer that someone would spend a few days looking into the
> warnings generated with sparse.

I did spend a bit of time running it on all the tree, but wireless,
where I do most work, is clean. I have some code in sound/ that
generates warnings and some drivers/macintosh/ code I worked on too, but
right now I don't want to pick up too many changes all over the tree
into my patches tree.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 10:38 [PATCH] mac80211: check endianness/types in sparse runs Johannes Berg
2008-02-20 19:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-20 20:07   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-21 12:42   ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-21 20:01     ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-21 22:32       ` __bitwise versus __bitwise__ [Was: [PATCH] mac80211: check endianness/types in sparse runs] Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-21 22:38         ` Al Viro
2008-02-21 20:06     ` [PATCH] mac80211: check endianness/types in sparse runs Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-21 20:09       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-02-21 20:25         ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-21 20:29           ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-21 20:33             ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-21 21:16     ` Al Viro
2008-02-22 14:02       ` Johannes Berg

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