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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sparse noise due to patch "net: fix kmemcheck annotations"
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:13:02 +0100
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Stefan Richter a =E9crit :
> Hi Eric,
>=20
> with above mentioned patch, committed as
> 14d18a81b5171d4433e41129619c75748b4f4d26, you changed
>=20
> struct sk_buff {
> 	...
> 	__be16 protocol;
> 	...
> }
> to
> 	__be16 protocol:16;
>=20
> This introduces the following warning from sparse:
>=20
> include/linux/skbuff.h:357:41: error: invalid bitfield specifier for
> type restricted __be16.
>=20
> So, one checker satisfied, another disturbed?  Any idea how to get th=
is
> sparse-clean again?

No problem here... how do you get this error, and what is your sparse v=
ersion ?