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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2016-12-11 06:28:41 +0200
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2016-12-16 00:13:40 +0200
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Documentation/sparse: drop __bitwise__
We dropped __CHECK_ENDIAN__ so __bitwise__ is now an implementation detail. People should use __bitwise everywhere. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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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
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