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

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 23:30:21 -0800

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 <[email-masked]>

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..