On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:51:00 AM CEST Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 12:46 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday, June 17, 2016 1:35:35 PM CEST Daniel Axtens wrote:
> > > > It would be better to fix the sparse compilation so the same endianess
> > > > is set that you get when calling gcc.
> > >
> > > I will definitely work on a patch to sparse! I'd still like this or
> > > something like it to go in though, so we can keep working on reducing
> > > the sparse warning count while the sparse patch is in the works.
> >
> > I think you just need to fix the Makefile so it sets the right
> > arguments when calling sparse.
> >
> > Something like the (untested) patch below, similar to how we
> > already handle the word size and how some other architectures
> > handle setting __BIG_ENDIAN__.
>
> Yep that's clearly better. I didn't know we had separate CHECKER_FLAGS.
>
> Daniel can you test that?
>
> Arnd we'll add Suggested-by: you, or send a SOB if you like?
>
Please use 'Suggested-by', the main work for this patch was in
analysing the problem and writing the changelog, and Daniel did that.
Arnd
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