Re: [PATCH] powerpc/align: Use #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__ #else for REG_BYTE

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 12:46 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday, June 17, 2016 1:35:35 PM CEST Daniel Axtens wrote:
> > > It would be better to fix the sparse compilation so the same endianess
> > > is set that you get when calling gcc.
> > 
> > I will definitely work on a patch to sparse! I'd still like this or
> > something like it to go in though, so we can keep working on reducing
> > the sparse warning count while the sparse patch is in the works.
> 
> I think you just need to fix the Makefile so it sets the right
> arguments when calling sparse.
> 
> Something like the (untested) patch below, similar to how we
> already handle the word size and how some other architectures
> handle setting __BIG_ENDIAN__.

Yep that's clearly better. I didn't know we had separate CHECKER_FLAGS.

Daniel can you test that?

Arnd we'll add Suggested-by: you, or send a SOB if you like?

cheers