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

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sat Aug 10 2019 - 09:22:39 EST


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?


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko