[lustre-devel] [PATCH v2] staging: lustre: Fix sparse endianness warnings cast to restricted __le64 and __le32

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:09:23AM -0700, skanda.kashyap at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Skanda Guruanand <skanda.kashyap at gmail.com>
> 
> Modified struct lu_dirpage in lustre_idl.h file to remove the sparse
> warnings where cast to restricted types are made.
> 
> Following warnings are removed by this fix.
> 
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:958:42: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:959:42: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:962:42: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:963:42: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:985:50: warning: cast to restricted __le32
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:1193:24: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:1328:25: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:1329:23: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:1332:25: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_request.c:1333:23: warning: cast to restricted __le64
> 
> Signed-off-by: Skanda Guruanand <skanda.kashyap at gmail.com>
> ---
> Isn't the below reason good enough?
> Since the structure elements are always converted from little endian to processor native format
> in mdc_request.c, struct lu_dirpage element types is modified.

Why isn't this above in the changelog text?

And I need an ack from a lustre maintainer before I can take this...

thanks,

greg k-h