[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 3/4] dtc/libfdt: introduce fdt types for annotation by endian checkers

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Dec 3 05:05:34 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 05:33:01PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
> Projects such as linux and u-boot run sparse on libfdt.  libfdt
> contains the notion of endianness via usage of endian conversion
> functions such as fdt32_to_cpu.  As such, in order to pass endian
> checks, libfdt has to annotate its fdt variables such that sparse
> can warn when mixing bitwise and regular integers.  This patch adds
> these new fdtXX_t types and, ifdef __CHECKER__ (a symbol sparse
> defines), includes the bitwise annotation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>

Much better, thanks

Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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