[V2, 2/6] tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support
Dong Aisheng
dongas86 at gmail.com
Tue May 16 23:09:57 PDT 2017
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 08:50:39AM +0300, Nikita Yushchenko wrote:
> >>>>> static u32 lpuart32_read(void __iomem *addr)
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> - return ioread32be(addr);
> >>>>> + return lpuart_is_be ? ioread32be(addr) : readl(addr);
> >>>>> }
> >>>>>
> >>>>> static void lpuart32_write(u32 val, void __iomem *addr)
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> - iowrite32be(val, addr);
> >>>>> + if (lpuart_is_be)
> >>>>> + iowrite32be(val, addr);
> >>>>> + else
> >>>>> + writel(val, addr);
> >>>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> What if this is ever executed on big endian system?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, not catching the point...
> >>>
> >>> What issues will meet?
> >>
> >> Isn't writel() in host endian?
> >
> > On big endian systems, it is supposed to run iowrite32be.
>
> Your code states, "force BE if lpuart_is_be, don't care otherwise".
> This semantics looks questionable for code reviewer.
> If driver handles endian, should't it be explicit in both cases?
> And if indeed driver means handling BE explicitly, but don't caring
> otherwise, maybe variable name should suggest that (i.e. "force_be")?
>
For lpuart32, only two cases that LS platforms is Big endian while
IMX is little endian.
It's SoC IP native property, i don't think force_be is better.
Regards
Dong Aisheng
> Although driver maintainer could think differently. I won't insist on this.
>
> Nikita
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