Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: api: detect unnecessary le16_to_cpu

From: Sebastian Reichel
Date: Mon Jul 03 2017 - 13:14:43 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 07:37:59PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Sebastian Reichel
> <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 09:28:10PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> > * drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c (line 190-192)
>
> It has double conversion there:
> 1. LE CPU: Read as LE and converted to LE (no-op), so, just u16
> 2. BE CPU: Read as BE and converted to LE, makes it __le16
>
> Looks like the conversion is not needed, only get_unaligned() is necessary.
>
> P.S. What about lines 244-245 there? I think they are no-op.
> Interesting that those two parts were added in quite different
> commits.

val[0] = (u16)ret & 0xFF;
val[1] = (u16)ret >> 8;

looks like cpu_to_be16()?

-- Sebastian

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