Explicitly give sparse an endianness in the Makefile, so that it doesn't get confused.
Normally we have #ifdef one and #else the other, so it doesn't usually matter, but we have been bitten by it before, and indeed this patch fixes a number of sparse errors. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <d...@axtens.net> --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index 709a22a3e824..8617c71c3bdb 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe -Iarch/$(ARCH) $(CFLAGS-y) CPP = $(CC) -E $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) CHECKFLAGS += -m$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE) -D__powerpc__ -D__powerpc$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE)__ +ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN +CHECKFLAGS += -D__BIG_ENDIAN__ +else +CHECKFLAGS += -D__LITTLE_ENDIAN__ +endif KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.o -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev