linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 10/15] irqchip: bcm7120-l2: Make sure all register accesses use base+offset

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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:12:30 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
Cc:	f.fainelli@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de, jason@...edaemon.net,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, lethal@...ux-sh.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	mbizon@...ebox.fr, jogo@...nwrt.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 10/15] irqchip: bcm7120-l2: Make sure all register accesses use base+offset

On Wednesday 29 October 2014 19:18:03 Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> A couple of accesses to IRQEN (base+0x00) just used "base" directly, so
> they would break if IRQEN ever became nonzero.  Make sure that all
> reads/writes specify the register offset constant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> 

Now you no longer convert them this driver to use irq_reg_{readl,writel}, which
breaks support for big-endian ARM.

	Arnd
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