[PATCHv7 1/4] pwm: Add Freescale FTM PWM driver support

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 01:54:35PM +0100, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 of December 2013 13:45:06 Thierry Reding wrote:
> > I fail to see how that would eliminate the problem with the types. That
> > said I don't actually see sparse complaining about any type mismatches.
> > That's probably because the various macros implicitly cast to u32.
> 
> Well, in BE variant you would read the register using __raw_readl() into
> a __be32 and then get an u32 from be32_to_cpu() and return it. Similarly
> for writes

__raw_readl() returns a u32, so you'll get a warning trying to assign a
u32 to a __be32.

We do have ioread32() and ioread32be() which do the appropriate conversion,
as well as the write versions too.  They both include the barrier if you're
overly concerned about that.