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| author | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2009-04-14 06:29:07 +0900 |
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| committer | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2009-04-14 06:29:07 +0900 |
| commit | f499cae1e59d75d5eb24c23d47cf8986e6032c6d (patch) | |
| tree | 1af6235c18391212c40116eb90b01eae8938efee /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | fc3f55e672e1ed917dd9e215af81939cd3d717da (diff) | |
| parent | 80a04d3f2f94fb68b5df05e3ac6697130bc3467a (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt index 42f43fa59f24..34c76a55bc04 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |