[PATCH v2 3/3][MTD] P4080/mtd: Fix the freescale lbc issue with 36bit mode

[Scott Wood]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:22:10 -0700
"Zang Roy-R61911" <r61911 at freescale.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geert.uytterhoeven at gmail.com [mailto:geert.uytterhoeven at gmail.com] On
> > Behalf Of Geert Uytterhoeven
> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 19:06 PM
> > To: Zang Roy-R61911
> > Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org; Wood Scott-B07421; dedekind1 at gmail.com; Lan
> > Chunhe-B25806; linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org; akpm at linux-foundation.org;
> > dwmw2 at infradead.org; Gala Kumar-B11780
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3][MTD] P4080/mtd: Fix the freescale lbc issue with
> > 36bit mode
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20, Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang at freescale.com> wrote:
> > > From: Lan Chunhe-B25806 <b25806 at freescale.com>
> > >
> > > When system uses 36bit physical address, res.start is 36bit
> > > physical address. But the function of in_be32 returns 32bit
> > > physical address. Then both of them compared each other is
> > > wrong. So by converting the address of res.start into
> > > the right format fixes this issue.
> > 
> > >  /**
> > > + * fsl_lbc_addr - convert the base address
> > > + * @addr_base: base address of the memory bank
> > > + *
> > > + * This function converts a base address of lbc into the right format for
> > the BR
> > > + * registers. If the SOC has eLBC then it returns 32bit physical address
> > else
> > > + * it returns 34bit physical address for local bus(Example: MPC8641).
> > > + */
> > > +unsigned int fsl_lbc_addr(phys_addr_t addr_base)
> >     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Shouldn't this be u32 or __be32, for consistency with the actual
> > comparisons below?
> __be32 is better.

I disagree, the return from this function is native-endian.  It should
be u32.

-Scott