linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spmi: pmic-arb: Don't byte swap when reading/writing FIFO

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Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:01:06 -0700
From:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spmi: pmic-arb: Don't byte swap when reading/writing FIFO

On Fri 28 Aug 12:21 PDT 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> We don't want to swap bytes that we're reading and writing to the
> FIFOs when we're running on a big-endian CPU. Doing so causes
> problems like where the qcom-spmi-iadc driver can't detect the
> type of device because the bytes are all mixed up. Use the raw IO
> accessors for these API instead, and collapse pmic_arb_base_read()
> into the byte reading API so that we aren't tempted to read non-FIFO
> data like commands with that function.
> 
> Cc: Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>

Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...ymobile.com>

Regards,
Bjorn

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