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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

