linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tpm_crb: Use the common ACPI definition of struct acpi

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Message-ID: <20151203170217.GB32175@obsidianresearch.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:02:17 -0700
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm_crb: Use the common ACPI definition of struct
 acpi_tpm2

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 10:27:53AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:19:00PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > include/acpi/actbl2.h is the proper place for these definitions
> > and the needed TPM2 ones have been there since
> > commit 413d4a6defe0 ("ACPICA: Update TPM2 ACPI table")
> > 
> > This also drops the le32_to_cpu for members of this table,
> > consistent with other ACPI stuff.
> 
> Why le32_to_cpu() is not needed?

Why is it needed?

None of the fields are marked le32 in the struct and no other ACPI
thing I could find swaps.

If swapping is needed then the struct fields must be declared as 'le'

Jason
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