Re: [PATCH] linux/types.h: Restore the ability to disable sparse endianness checks

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:23:53AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> The purpose of patch "linux/types.h: enable endian checks for all
> sparse builds" was to encourage driver authors to annotate
> endianness correctly in their drivers. However, since that patch
> went upstream no endianness annotations in drivers have been fixed.
> I think that this shows that the followed approach does not work,
> probably because several driver authors do not use sparse. Restore
> the ability to disable sparse endianness checks such that it
> becomes again easy to review other sparse diagnostics for people
> who want to analyze drivers they are not the author of.

So how do we get people to do it?  Out of the sparse checks endianess
warnings are the most useful, together with __user and __iomem.