If use the get_unaligned, below is the code example, but we cannot detect if it is big endian or little endian. I would like to use the same write logic as PCA957X_TYPE: use the i2c_smbus_write_byte_data API to write two times. How do you think about it? if (big_endian) value = get_unaligned_be16(buf); else value = get_unaligned_le16(buf); Thanks, Yong Li 2016-03-30 0:33 GMT+08:00 Phil Reid <preid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 29/03/2016 10:39 PM, Alexander Stein wrote: >> >> You missed CC'ing Phil (Added for this post) >> >> On Tuesday 29 March 2016 20:53:58, Yong Li wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for your comment, I think I can change it to val[0] | (val[1] >>> << 8), is it okay ? >> >> >> Mh, currently there is only one caller (device_pca953x_init) which passes >> only >> 0, 0 or 0xff, 0xff, so endianess is irrelevant. But to be future proof >> this >> should be done in an endian-safe manner. Though cpu_to_le16p does not >> work, >> due to same alignment problem as casting to u16*. >> > > I think get_unaligned((u16 *) val) should do the job. > There's also get_unaligned_le* get_unaligned_be* > > -- > Regards > Phil Reid > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html