Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix sparse -Wbitwise warnings.

[Andreas Dilger]

On Feb 15, 2005  15:29 -0800, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > If we want to fix this, let's fix the macros: for example, convert
> > EXT3_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE to be
> > 
> > 	( le32_to_cpu(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_feature_compat) & (mask) )
> 
> Of course that's less efficient though since "mask" is probably constant..
> so now the endian conversion changed from compile-time to run-time.
> 
> Would something like
> 
>  	( ( EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_feature_compat & cpu_to_le32(mask) ) != 0)
> 
> be enough to satisfy sparse?

Or we could cast "mask" to the appropriate type (I'm not sure what sparse
uses to determine this).

Cheers, Andreas
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