Re: [PATCH 1/1] iio: accel: bmc150: fix endianness when reading axes

From: Peter Meerwald-Stadler
Date: Mon Mar 28 2016 - 13:43:03 EST


On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, Irina Tirdea wrote:

> For big endian platforms, reading the axes will return
> invalid values.
>
> The device stores each axis value in a 16 bit little
> endian register. The driver uses regmap_read_bulk to get
> the axis value, resulting in a 16 bit little endian value.
> This needs to be converted to cpu endianness to work
> on big endian platforms.
>
> Fix endianness for big endian platforms by converting
> the values for the axes read from little endian to
> cpu.
>
> This is also partially fixed in commit b6fb9b6d6552 ("iio:
> accel: bmc150: optimize transfers in trigger handler").

looks good

in bmc150_accel_get_axis() the call to regmap_bulk_read() could now pass
sizeof(raw_val) instead of 2

> Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c b/drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c
> index c73331f7..5b64c3e 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c
> @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ static int bmc150_accel_get_axis(struct bmc150_accel_data *data,
> {
> int ret;
> int axis = chan->scan_index;
> - unsigned int raw_val;
> + __le16 raw_val;
>
> mutex_lock(&data->mutex);
> ret = bmc150_accel_set_power_state(data, true);
> @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ static int bmc150_accel_get_axis(struct bmc150_accel_data *data,
> mutex_unlock(&data->mutex);
> return ret;
> }
> - *val = sign_extend32(raw_val >> chan->scan_type.shift,
> + *val = sign_extend32(le16_to_cpu(raw_val) >> chan->scan_type.shift,
> chan->scan_type.realbits - 1);
> ret = bmc150_accel_set_power_state(data, false);
> mutex_unlock(&data->mutex);
> @@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ static const struct iio_event_spec bmc150_accel_event = {
> .realbits = (bits), \
> .storagebits = 16, \
> .shift = 16 - (bits), \
> + .endianness = IIO_LE, \
> }, \
> .event_spec = &bmc150_accel_event, \
> .num_event_specs = 1 \
>

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Peter Meerwald-Stadler
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