Re: [PATCH] gpio/sifive: fix static checker warning

[Marc Zyngier]

JaeJoon,

On 2020-01-29 01:27, JaeJoon Jung wrote:
> Because SiFive FU540 GPIO Registers are aligned 32-bit,
> I think that irq_state is good "unsigned int" than "unsigned long".
>
> I refer to SiFive FU540-C000 Manual v1p0 (GPIO Register Table 103)
> as "Only naturally aligned 32-bit memory accesses are supported"

You realize that we're talking about variables here, and not hardware
registers, right?

> when you use assign_bit(offset, &chip->irq_state, 1),
> offset is 32-bit.

And? assign_bit takes an "unsigned long *" as a parameter. irrespective
of the size of long on a given architecture, by the way.

> I prefer to use bit operation instead of assign_bit().
>
> u32 bit = BIT(offset);
> chip->irq_state |= bit;

which is not what assign_bit() does.

> If you use this code, you do not use the assign_bit() and
> need not change irq_state data type.

Or we can use the correct API and not introduce additional bugs, which
your suggestion above would lead to.

> There are many improvements in my works for drivers/gpio/gpio-sifive.c.
> I hope to check my attached source file.

That's not how we submit patches to the Linux kernel. I suggest you
read the documentation on how to do this.

Thanks,

        M.
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