[ewg] Re: [PATCH 2/14] nes: device structures and defines

[Michael Buesch]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 14:55:11 Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:50:35PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 14:38:10 Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Jeff Garzik <jeff at garzik.org> writes:
> > > > > +			val, reg_index, addr, addr+4); */
> > > > > +	writel(cpu_to_le32(reg_index), addr);
> > > > > +	writel(cpu_to_le32(val),(u8 *)addr + 4);
> > > > 
> > > > wrong -- endian conversion macros not needed with writel()
> > > 
> > > Are you sure? I don't think that's true. e.g. powerpc writel 
> > > doesn't convert endian
> > 
> > Andi, you are wrong.
> > writeX take CPU endian args.
> 
> That is what I wrote.

Uhm, so....
Why did you complain to Jeff?
I'm a little bit confused now :)

Fact is that we do _not_ need cpu_to_le32 with writel.

-- 
Greetings Michael.