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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2009-05-20 09:02:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2009-05-20 09:02:28 +0200 |
| commit | 521c180874dae86f675d23c4eade4dba8b1f2cc8 (patch) | |
| tree | 7509303da3a9a1b40a26f6811f321c89cd31737b /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | f1a11e0576c7a73d759d05d776692b2b2d37172b (diff) | |
| parent | 64d1304a64477629cb16b75491a77bafe6f86963 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'core/urgent' into core/futexes
Merge reason: this branch was on an pre -rc1 base, merge it up to -rc6+
to get the latest upstream fixes.
Conflicts:
kernel/futex.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sparse.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sparse.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |