Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Fix init endian vendor check

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 09:02:16 EST


On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 02:05:21PM +0200, Florian Eckert wrote:
> On my embedded system I use this tpm infineon chip via i2c bus.
> The system is a MIPS architecture and therefore works in big endian mode.
>
> The problem is, that the chip type is not correctly recognized,
> because the vendor ID is wrongly aligned in the memory.
>
> By declaring the vendor ID variable as a `__le32` type, the TPM chip is
> then correctly recognized by the driver and feels then responsible.
>
> The device works than as expected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Eckert <fe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> * use variable type instead of le32_to_cpus function call
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

And if you do this it need to be made sparse clean/etc

Jason