diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
index e08e6a8effba3f7679827d059649ab044a690903..78aa00a604a0090713615ff0dfad8c04ab60dc44 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
@@ -102,9 +102,4 @@ be recompiled or not.  The latter is a fast way to check the whole tree if you
 have already built it.
 
 The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse.  The
-build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.  To perform endianness
-checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__::
-
-        make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
-
-These checks are disabled by default as they generate a host of warnings.
+build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.
diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/sparse.txt b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/sparse.txt
index cc144e58151537cbc4e0209732117879a159f44c..e41dc940e16298854e52626412b08b73bd223aa2 100644
--- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/sparse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/sparse.txt
@@ -92,9 +92,4 @@ DaveJ 把每小时自动生成的 git 源码树 tar 包放在以下地址：
 如果你已经编译了内核，用后一种方式可以很快地检查整个源码树。
 
 make 的可选变量 CHECKFLAGS 可以用来向 sparse 工具传递参数。编译系统会自
-动向 sparse 工具传递 -Wbitwise 参数。你可以定义 __CHECK_ENDIAN__ 来进行
-大小尾检查。
-
-	make C=2 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
-
-这些检查默认都是被关闭的，因为他们通常会产生大量的警告。
+动向 sparse 工具传递 -Wbitwise 参数。