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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-04-16 17:35:26 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-04-16 17:35:26 -0700 |
| commit | a54bfa40fd16aeb90bc556189221576f746f8567 (patch) | |
| tree | 176bb7a99ffab5f42f0dd4e9671f335be3f3efa0 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | fe957c40ec5e2763b9977c565beab3bde3aaf85b (diff) | |
| parent | 134ffb4cad92a6aa534e55a9be145bca780a32c1 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |