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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2009-04-22 13:02:09 +1000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2009-04-22 13:02:09 +1000 |
| commit | 5bd3ef84d73c2ea7b4babbad060909753c4828d4 (patch) | |
| tree | fdf2bafb48ae1ed03175f6c77a7548a181e69ee9 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | 0658c16056660886ea2f35c4f038be70a94b1532 (diff) | |
| parent | 6d25b688ecc488753af3c9e6f6a9a575b863cf37 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 into merge
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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |