Re: [PATCH 5/5] ath9k: Make EEPROM endianness swapping configurable via devicetree

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On Monday 29 August 2016, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> > and then do a swab32() on them. I suspect these should just be __le32
> > (and __le16, respectively where needed), using appropriate accessors
> > everywhere that those fields are being read instead of having one function
> > that tries to turn them into cpu-native ordering.
> I'm not sure if we want those fields to be __le32:
> BIT(0) in the eepMisc field indicates whether to interpret the data as
> big or little endian.
> When this bit is set we would want these fields to be __be32 instead -
> so I guess the current implementation is "OK" for this specific
> use-case.

Ok, I see. It's still confusing because it's different from how other
drivers handle this (case in point: I was very confused by this). 

Do you see any downsides in changing the code to consistently annotate
the eeprom as either __le or __be (whichever is more common), using
the respective endianess accessors, and then doing the swap if the
data we read is the opposite way?

	Arnd
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