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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atheros: force endian checks on atheros wireless drivers
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:14:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324480449.3401.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324465840.2182.198.camel@cumari> (sfid-20111221_121047_806730_87573FD9)

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 13:10 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote:

> >  ath-$(CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG) += debug.o
> > +ccflags-y += -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__
> 
> Doesn't this force everyone who compiles the modules (even
> non-developers) to have sparse installed? Is it really what we want?

No. It just forces everyone who does use sparse to also use it for
endian checks. I do the same in all code I maintain, take a look :-)

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-20 19:18 [PATCH] atheros: force endian checks on atheros wireless drivers Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-12-21 11:10 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-12-21 15:14   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-12-21 15:26     ` Luciano Coelho

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