Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] dvb: usb vendor_ids/product_idsare __le16

From: Harvey Harrison
Date: Fri Nov 14 2008 - 16:08:59 EST


On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:55 -0500, Andy Walls wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:44 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> > But I'd suggest
> > that if you want to improve the maintainability of this code that someone
> > in v4l-land start running sparse regularly
>
> For those who don't get the daily 'bot mail on the v4l-dvb-maintainer
> list, Hans Verkuil's v4l-dvb build 'bot runs sparse builds daily for all
> of v4l-dvb land:
>
> http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/v4l-dvb-maintainer/2008-November/008595.html
>
> Although developers won't see waring/error outputs from those runs until
> after their changes are merged in the main v4l-dvb repo.
>
> The latest kernel this automatic sparse build compiles is currently
> 2.26.28-rc4. I've used it to monitor the cx18 driver for sparse build
> errors so I could address them - it's quite convenient.
>

Does Hans' build turn on __CHECK_ENDIAN__? That would help as well.

Harvey

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