netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/5] qlge: bugfix: Fix endian issue regarding shadow registers.

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Date:	Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:15:21 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@...gic.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] qlge: bugfix: Fix endian issue regarding shadow
	registers.

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:35:31PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > -static inline unsigned int ql_read_sh_reg(const volatile void  *addr)
> > +static inline u32 ql_read_sh_reg(const volatile void  *addr)
> >  {
> > -	return *(volatile unsigned int __force *)addr;
> > +	return le32_to_cpu(*(volatile unsigned int __force *)addr);
> 
> I think that should be:
> 	???return le32_to_cpu(*(const volatile __le32 *)addr);

No.  It needs more love than that.

ql_read_sh_reg is only used to access .prod_idx_sh_reg in the rx_ring
structure, which is an offset from the .rx_ring_shadow_reg_area member.
So instead of all this werid casting .prod_idx_sh_reg should simply
be a __le32 pointer, whithout volatile and the other mess, and then
you can use le32_to_cpu directly and kill the helper.

And please verify the whole driver for endianess issues using sparse
while you're at it...
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