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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-20 18:08:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-20 18:08:12 +0200 |
| commit | 62d170290979e0bb805d969cca4ea852bdd45260 (patch) | |
| tree | 837372297501a2d144358b44e7db3f88c5612aa2 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | 8b5b94e4e9813cdd77103827f48d58c806ab45c6 (diff) | |
| parent | d91dfbb41bb2e9bdbfbd2cc7078ed7436eab027a (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: We need the x86/uv updates from upstream, to queue up
dependent fix.
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |