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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] How to encourage driver authors
 to annotate integer endianness properly
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On 10/25/17, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> wrote:
> I think we need a way to encourage driver authors
> to pay attention to endianness annotations,

typedef struct {
        uint32_t _;
} __le32;

The problems of sparse are:
a) it is not mandatory part of kernel compilation, and
b) it doesn't break compilation.