Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel: add -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ by default

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Feb 19 2009 - 13:57:46 EST


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:33:01PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> The noise level with endian checking is getting to the point where
> having this enabled by default wouldn't be too bad. If this were to
> go in for the 2.6.30 devel cycle it may motivate the last sections that
> are still particularly noisy (sound/, drivers/scsi/ come to mind)

In which case you should juse kill the CHECK_ENDIAN ifdef and make
the checking versions the default. Also Documentation/sparse.txt
needs some updates for this change.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/