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| author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +1000 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +1000 |
| commit | d254117099d711f215e62427f55dfb8ebd5ad011 (patch) | |
| tree | 0848ff8dd74314fec14a86497f8d288c86ba7c65 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | 07ff7a0b187f3951788f64ae1f30e8109bc8e9eb (diff) | |
| parent | 8c9ed899b44c19e81859fbb0e9d659fe2f8630fc (diff) | |
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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |