Hi Pavel,

> El 23 feb 2021, a las 9:34, Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> escribió:
> 
> On Tue 2021-02-23 09:17:31, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
>> This is proven to work in BMIPS BE/LE and ARM BE/LE, as used in bcm2835-rng
>> and bcmgenet drivers.
>> Both should also be inline functions.
> 
> 
> 
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> -    iowrite32be(data, reg);
>> -#else
>> -    writel(data, reg);
>> -#endif
>> +    /* MIPS chips strapped for BE will automagically configure the
>> +     * peripheral registers for CPU-native byte order.
>> +     */
> 
> Bad comment style.

I just wanted to copy the same comment as the one in bcm2835-rng and bcmgenet…
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3b9cdafb5358eb9f3790de2f728f765fef100731/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c#L42-L60
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3b9cdafb5358eb9f3790de2f728f765fef100731/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c#L71-L88

> 
>> +    if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN))
>> +            __raw_writel(data, reg);
>> +    else
>> +            writel_relaxed(data, reg);
>> }
> 
> Code does not match comment (still need to do conversion on
> non-MIPS?), and it certainly should not be here (do all mipsen behave
> like that?!), and it really should not be converting to _relaxed at
> the same time.

I think it's because non-MIPS BE exposes that as little endian, but Florian can 
probably help us with that…

> 
> Best regards,
>                                                               Pavel
> -- 
> http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek

Best regards,
Álvaro.

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