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authorMark Brown <[email protected]>2017-01-24 16:24:18 +0000
committerMark Brown <[email protected]>2017-01-24 16:24:18 +0000
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parentf6fa11a35c548a516a41ce1669d0dbcdaabb267f (diff)
parent7ce7d89f48834cefece7804d38fc5d85382edf77 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.10-rc1' into asoc-intel
Linux 4.10-rc1
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@@ -51,13 +51,6 @@ 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.
-
Using sparse for lock checking
------------------------------
@@ -109,9 +102,4 @@ be recompiled or not. The latter is a fast way to check the whole tree if you
have already built it.
The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The
-build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. To perform endianness
-checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__::
-
- make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
-
-These checks are disabled by default as they generate a host of warnings.
+build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.