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Re: [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds
Date 2016-12-07 08:40 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 05:41:05PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> __CHECK_ENDIAN__ isn't on by default presumably because
> it triggers too many sparse warnings for correct code.
> But virtio is now clean of these warnings, and
> we want to keep it this way - enable this for
> sparse builds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Nah.  Please just enable it globally when using sparse.  I actually
had a chat with Linus about that a while ago and he seemed generally
fine with it, I just didn't manage to actually do it..

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[PATCH 00/10] virtio: sparse fixes "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
  [PATCH 07/10] vsock/virtio: add a missing __le annotation "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/10] vsock/virtio: add a missing __le annotation Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 05:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/10] vsock/virtio: add a missing __le annotation Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 15:20 +0100
  [PATCH 05/10] vhost: make interval tree static inline "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
  [PATCH 09/10] vsock/virtio: fix src/dst cid format "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 09/10] vsock/virtio: fix src/dst cid format Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 05:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 09/10] vsock/virtio: fix src/dst cid format "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-11 04:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 09/10] vsock/virtio: fix src/dst cid format Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 15:10 +0100
  [PATCH 06/10] vhost: add missing __user annotations "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 06/10] vhost: add missing __user annotations Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 05:20 +0100
  [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-12-07 07:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 14:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-12-07 08:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 15:20 +0100
  [PATCH 02/10] drm/virtio: fix endianness in primary_plane_update "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 02/10] drm/virtio: fix endianness in primary_plane_update Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 05:20 +0100
  [PATCH 03/10] drm/virtio: fix lock context imbalance "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 03/10] drm/virtio: fix lock context imbalance Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 05:20 +0100
  [PATCH 04/10] drm/virtio: annotate  virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_buffer_locked "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 04/10] drm/virtio: annotate  virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_buffer_locked Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 05:20 +0100
  [PATCH 01/10] virtio_console: drop unused config fields "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] virtio_console: drop unused config fields Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 05:20 +0100

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