On Monday 07 January 2013 16:34:59 Heiko Carstens wrote:
> 
> E.g. readl is defined like this
> 
>  #define readl(addr) __le32_to_cpu(__raw_readl(addr))
> 
> If there is a readl() call that doesn't check the return value
> this will cause a compile warning on big endian machines due to
> the __le32_to_cpu macro magic.
> 
> E.g. code like this:
> 
>         readl(addr);
> 
> will generate the following compile warning:
> 
> warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
> 
> Convert the defines to functions so we get rid of these warnings.
> With this patch we get rid of dozens of compile warnings on s390.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

if you fix this:

> +#define readl readl
> +static inline u32 __raw_readl(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
> +{
> +       return __le32_to_cpu(__raw_readl(addr));
> +}
 
to be called readl rather than __raw_readl

        Arnd
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