linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iio: gyro: bmg160: fix endianness when reading axes

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Date:	Sun, 3 Apr 2016 11:17:18 +0100
From:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iio: gyro: bmg160: fix endianness when reading
 axes

On 29/03/16 13:37, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> For big endian platforms, reading the axes will return
> invalid values.
> 
> The device stores each axis value in a 16 bit little
> endian register. The driver uses regmap_read_bulk to get
> the axis value, resulting in a 16 bit little endian value.
> This needs to be converted to cpu endianness to work
> on big endian platforms.
> 
> Fix endianness for big endian platforms by converting
> the values for the axes read from little endian to
> cpu.
> 
> This is also partially fixed in commit 82d8e5da1a33 ("iio:
> accel: bmg160: optimize transfers in trigger handler").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>
Applied to the fixes-togreg-post-rc1 branch and marked for stable.
> ---
> 
> Changes from v1:
>  - pass sizeof(raw_val) to regmap_bulk_read instead of
> hardcoded value
> 
>  drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160_core.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160_core.c b/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160_core.c
> index bbce3b0..8d3f0b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/gyro/bmg160_core.c
> @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static int bmg160_get_temp(struct bmg160_data *data, int *val)
>  static int bmg160_get_axis(struct bmg160_data *data, int axis, int *val)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> -	unsigned int raw_val;
> +	__le16 raw_val;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&data->mutex);
>  	ret = bmg160_set_power_state(data, true);
> @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ static int bmg160_get_axis(struct bmg160_data *data, int axis, int *val)
>  	}
>  
>  	ret = regmap_bulk_read(data->regmap, BMG160_AXIS_TO_REG(axis), &raw_val,
> -			       2);
> +			       sizeof(raw_val));
>  	if (ret < 0) {
>  		dev_err(data->dev, "Error reading axis %d\n", axis);
>  		bmg160_set_power_state(data, false);
> @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ static int bmg160_get_axis(struct bmg160_data *data, int axis, int *val)
>  		return ret;
>  	}
>  
> -	*val = sign_extend32(raw_val, 15);
> +	*val = sign_extend32(le16_to_cpu(raw_val), 15);
>  	ret = bmg160_set_power_state(data, false);
>  	mutex_unlock(&data->mutex);
>  	if (ret < 0)
> @@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ static const struct iio_event_spec bmg160_event = {
>  		.sign = 's',						\
>  		.realbits = 16,					\
>  		.storagebits = 16,					\
> +		.endianness = IIO_LE,					\
>  	},								\
>  	.event_spec = &bmg160_event,					\
>  	.num_event_specs = 1						\
>