Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix sparse -Wbitwise warnings.

[Mitchell Blank Jr]

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> If we want to fix this, let's fix the macros: for example, convert
> EXT3_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE to be
> 
> 	( le32_to_cpu(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_feature_compat) & (mask) )

Of course that's less efficient though since "mask" is probably constant..
so now the endian conversion changed from compile-time to run-time.

Would something like

 	( ( EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_feature_compat & cpu_to_le32(mask) ) != 0)

be enough to satisfy sparse?

-Mitch
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