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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-07 06:22:15 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-07 06:22:15 -0400
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@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ sure that bitwise types don't get mixed up (little-endian vs big-endian
42vs cpu-endian vs whatever), and there the constant "0" really _is_ 42vs cpu-endian vs whatever), and there the constant "0" really _is_
43special. 43special.
44 44
45__bitwise__ - to be used for relatively compact stuff (gfp_t, etc.) that
46is mostly warning-free and is supposed to stay that way. Warnings will
47be generated without __CHECK_ENDIAN__.
48
49__bitwise - noisy stuff; in particular, __le*/__be* are that. We really
50don't want to drown in noise unless we'd explicitly asked for it.
51
52
45Getting sparse 53Getting sparse
46~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 54~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
47 55