Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] MIPS: SGI-IP27: fix readb/writeb addressing

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Aug 14 2019 - 07:40:19 EST


On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:47:13 +0200
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 8/11/19 9:29 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 04:22:23PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:34 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
> >> <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Our chosen byte swapping, which is what firmware already uses, is to
> >>> do readl/writel by normal lw/sw intructions (data invariance). This
> >>> also means we need to mangle addresses for u8 and u16 accesses. The
> >>> mangling for 16bit has been done aready, but 8bit one was missing.
> >>> Correcting this causes different addresses for accesses to the
> >>> SuperIO and local bus of the IOC3 chip. This is fixed by changing
> >>> byte order in ioc3 and m48rtc_rtc structs.
> >>
> >>> /* serial port register map */
> >>> struct ioc3_serialregs {
> >>> - uint32_t sscr;
> >>> - uint32_t stpir;
> >>> - uint32_t stcir;
> >>> - uint32_t srpir;
> >>> - uint32_t srcir;
> >>> - uint32_t srtr;
> >>> - uint32_t shadow;
> >>> + u32 sscr;
> >>> + u32 stpir;
> >>> + u32 stcir;
> >>> + u32 srpir;
> >>> + u32 srcir;
> >>> + u32 srtr;
> >>> + u32 shadow;
> >>> };
> >>
> >> Isn't it a churn? AFAIU kernel documentation the uint32_t is okay to
> >> use, just be consistent inside one module / driver.
> >> Am I mistaken?
> >
> > No, but really it uint* shouldn't be used anywhere in the kernel source
> > as it does not make sense.
>
> If you respin your series, please send this cleanup as a separate patch.

no need for an extra patch. I realized that patch 7 in this series introduces
all of these uint32_t. So i already fixed it there.

Thomas.

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