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On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:26:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 01:14:39PM +0000, Carlos Menin wrote:
> > Cells in DT are 32-bits in size. of_property_read_u8() does not work
> > properly as it returns incorrect values in little-endian architectures.
> > Fix it by using of_property_read_u32() instead.
> >
> Are you saying that pretty much all callers of of_property_read_u8()
> have this problem ? I would not rule that out, but it seems hard to
> believe.
>
> Guenter
>
> > Signed-off-by: Carlos Menin <carlos.menin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/hwmon/adc128d818.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/adc128d818.c b/drivers/hwmon/adc128d818.c
> > index ca794bf..b5eb3c0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hwmon/adc128d818.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/adc128d818.c
> > @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ struct adc128_data {
> > struct regulator *regulator;
> > int vref; /* Reference voltage in mV */
> > struct mutex update_lock;
> > - u8 mode; /* Operation mode */
> > + u32 mode; /* Operation mode */
> > bool valid; /* true if following fields are valid */
> > unsigned long last_updated; /* In jiffies */
> >
> > @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static int adc128_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> > }
> >
> > /* Operation mode is optional. If unspecified, keep current mode */
> > - if (of_property_read_u8(dev->of_node, "ti,mode", &data->mode) == 0) {
> > + if (of_property_read_u32(dev->of_node, "ti,mode", &data->mode) == 0) {
> > if (data->mode > 3) {
> > dev_err(dev, "invalid operation mode %d\n",
> > data->mode);
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
