On Thursday 02 January 2014 17:57:01 Xiubo Li wrote: > +static inline u32 ftm_readl(bool big_endian, const void __iomem *addr) > +{ > + u32 val; > + > + val = __raw_readl(addr); > + > + if (likely(big_endian)) > + val = be32_to_cpu((__force __be32)val); > + else > + val = le32_to_cpu((__force __le32)val); > + rmb(); > + > + return val; > +} > + > +static inline void ftm_writel(bool big_endian, u32 val, void __iomem *addr) > +{ > + wmb(); > + if (likely(big_endian)) > + val = (__force u32)cpu_to_be32(val); > + else > + val = (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(val); > + > + __raw_writel(val, addr); These functions definitely need some comments regarding why this is necessary. I assume that after 8 rounds of review (that I did not read) this has been discussed already, so please explain above the functions why you don't just use ioread32be/ioread32 and iowrite32be/iowrite32 here. Also all callers seem to be of the style val = ftm_readl(fpc->big_endian, fpc->base + FTM_SC); so I wonder why you don't just pass the fpc pointer to the function and make it static inline void ftm_readl(struct fsl_pwm_chip *fpc, unsigned long reg, u32 val) { if (fpc->big_endian) iowrite32be(val, fpc->base + reg); else iowrite32(val, fpc->base + reg); } Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html