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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-29 14:46:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-29 14:47:05 +0200 |
| commit | e7fd5d4b3d240f42c30a9e3d20a4689c4d3a795a (patch) | |
| tree | 4ba588631dd8189a818a91c9e3976526071178b6 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | 1130b0296184bc21806225fd06d533515a99d2db (diff) | |
| parent | 56a50adda49b2020156616c4eb15353e0f9ad7de (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
the latest upstream fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt index 42f43fa59f2..34c76a55bc0 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |