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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200 |
| commit | 5f4457a4f62cc9d78e04c0eb12ff0540899aad89 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b973d527ea6b2ae31e08da0746b4965a3c5a6d8 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | 9b94b3a19b13e094c10f65f24bc358f6ffe4eacd (diff) | |
| parent | b87297fb405ef13cac375f202d114323b076a56d (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu
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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |