[PATCH] linux/types.h: Restore the ability to disable sparse endianness checks

[Bart Van Assche]

The purpose of patch "linux/types.h: enable endian checks for all
sparse builds" was to encourage driver authors to annotate
endianness correctly in their drivers. However, since that patch
went upstream no endianness annotations in drivers have been fixed.
I think that this shows that the followed approach does not work,
probably because several driver authors do not use sparse. Restore
the ability to disable sparse endianness checks such that it
becomes again easy to review other sparse diagnostics for people
who want to analyze drivers they are not the author of.

References: commit 05de97003c77 ("linux/types.h: enable endian checks for all sparse builds")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/uapi/linux/types.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/types.h b/include/uapi/linux/types.h
index 41e5914f0a8e..d3dcb0764c45 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/types.h
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@
 #else
 #define __bitwise__
 #endif
+#if !defined(__CHECK_ENDIAN__) || __CHECK_ENDIAN__ != 0
 #define __bitwise __bitwise__
+#else
+#define __bitwise
+#endif
 
 typedef __u16 __bitwise __le16;
 typedef __u16 __bitwise __be16;
-- 
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