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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 14:44:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 14:44:31 +0200 |
| commit | 41fb454ebe6024f5c1e3b3cbc0abc0da762e7b51 (patch) | |
| tree | 51c50bcb67a5039448ddfa1869d7948cab1217e9 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | 19c1a6f5764d787113fa323ffb18be7991208f82 (diff) | |
| parent | 091bf7624d1c90cec9e578a18529f615213ff847 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into core/iommu
Merge reason: core/iommu was on an .30-rc1 base,
update it to .30-rc5 to refresh.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt index 42f43fa59f2..34c76a55bc0 100644 --- a/Documentation/sparse.txt +++ b/Documentation/sparse.txt @@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ sure that bitwise types don't get mixed up (little-endian vs big-endian vs cpu-endian vs whatever), and there the constant "0" really _is_ special. +__bitwise__ - to be used for relatively compact stuff (gfp_t, etc.) that +is mostly warning-free and is supposed to stay that way. Warnings will +be generated without __CHECK_ENDIAN__. + +__bitwise - noisy stuff; in particular, __le*/__be* are that. We really +don't want to drown in noise unless we'd explicitly asked for it. + + Getting sparse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |