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SubjectRe: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-xiic: Fix big-endian register access
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 06:08:47PM +0200, Thomas Gessler wrote:
> The driver tried to access device registers with the (little-endian)
> iowrite/ioread functions. While this worked on little-endian machines
> (e.g. Microblaze with AXI bus), it made the driver unusable on
> big-endian machines (e.g. PPC405 with PLB).
>
> During the probe function, the driver tried to write a 32-bit reset mask
> into the reset register. This caused an error interrupt on big-endian
> systems, because the device detected an invalid (byte-swapped) reset
> mask. The result was an Oops.
>
> The patch implements an endianness detection similar to the one used in
> other Xilinx drivers like drivers/spi/spi-xilinx.c. It was tested on a
> PPC405/PLB system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gessler <Thomas.Gessler@exp2.physik.uni-giessen.de>

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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