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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-24 10:11:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-24 10:11:23 +0200 |
| commit | 416dfdcdb894432547ead4fcb9fa6a36b396059e (patch) | |
| tree | 8033fdda07397a59c5fa98c88927040906ce6c1a /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | 56449f437add737a1e5e1cb7e00f63ac8ead1938 (diff) | |
| parent | 091069740304c979f957ceacec39c461d0192158 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN
dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it
here.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt index 42f43fa..34c76a5 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
