Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/gpio: Port gpio driver to layerscape platform

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 09:53 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2015 14:48:24 Liu Gang wrote:
> > 
> > +static bool gpio_little_endian;
> > +static inline u32 gpio_in32(void __iomem *addr)
> > +{
> > +   u32 val;
> > +
> > +   if (gpio_little_endian)
> > +           val = ioread32(addr);
> > +   else
> > +           val = ioread32be(addr);
> > +
> > +   return val;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void gpio_out32(u32 val, void __iomem *addr)
> > +{
> > +   if (gpio_little_endian)
> > +           iowrite32(val, addr);
> > +   else
> > +           iowrite32be(val, addr);
> > +}
> 
> I guess this is fixed per architecture, so you could also do this as
> 
> static inline void gpio_out32(u32 val, void __iomem *addr)
> {
>       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM))
>               iowrite32(val, addr);
>       else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC)
>               iowrite32be(val, addr);
>       else
>               BUG();
> }

Unfortunately that guess is wrong.  Some of our ARM chips have big-endian I/O 
and some have little-endian I/O.

-Scott