[V2, 2/6] tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support
Dong Aisheng
dongas86 at gmail.com
Tue May 16 20:31:40 PDT 2017
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:08:12PM +0300, Nikita Yushchenko wrote:
> > @@ -2000,6 +2007,7 @@ static int lpuart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > }
> > sport->port.line = ret;
> > sport->lpuart32 = sdata->is_32;
> > + lpuart_is_be = sdata->is_be;
>
> Setting a global variable in per-device routine is quite bad design.
>
There is a reason for that we don't want to change the exist
lpuart32_read[write] API which is widely used in driver.
Making a global lpuart_is_be is the simplest way to do it.
Any strong blocking reason?
Regards
Dong Aisheng
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