Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: fix cast to restricted __le32

[Luc Van Oostenryck]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 03:54:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I'm sort of surprised that the zero day bot didn't complain about this.
> It probably should.
> 
> The endianness checking is not turned on by default in Sparse.  You have
> to do "make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" to turn it on.

Bitwise (and thus endian) checking is enabled by default in the kernel
since 05de97003 ("linux/types.h: enable endian checks for all sparse builds")
included in v4.10-rc1. Since then they make more than half of sparse
warnings (in a x86-64 allyesconfig).

Best regards,
-- Luc