Re: [patches] [PATCH 0/2] riscv: pass endianness and machine size to sparse

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Thu Nov 09 2017 - 16:54:38 EST


On Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:46:50 PST (-0800), luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:53:52 PST (-0800), luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> The goal of these two patches is to ass endianness and machine
>>> size info to sparse so that sparse can emit correct diagnostics
>>> even when the endianness and machine size doesn't correspond to
>>> sparse's defaults.
>>>
>>> Luc Van Oostenryck (2):
>>> riscv: pass endianness info to sparse
>>> riscv: pass machine size to sparse
>>>
>>> arch/riscv/Makefile | 4 ++++
>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> Thanks! I'll take these into the RISC-V tree.
>
> Well, better to hold one because someone has asked
> to treat the problem in a generic way (the same problem exist
> on other archs) and I certainly think it's indeed better.
>
> I'll sent a newer patch in a day or two.

OK, no problem. I'm re-organizing our big list of outstanding patches (in
addition the reviewed ones I'll be sending up), so I'll just leave this on a
staging branch.

Thanks!