[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "iio: Fix endianness issue in ak8975_read_axis()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jul 1 08:51:10 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iio: Fix endianness issue in ak8975_read_axis()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 93945c9449537a15692b45837d373d72fcfd7fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw at pmeerw.net>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:53:00 +0100
Subject: iio: Fix endianness issue in ak8975_read_axis()

commit 8ba42fb7b17649c9ab5b5e79d4e90370a0b4645e upstream.

i2c_smbus_read_word_data() does host endian conversion already,
no need for le16_to_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw at pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23 at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8975.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8975.c b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8975.c
index 9edf4c935fd7..aeba3bbdadb0 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8975.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8975.c
@@ -352,8 +352,6 @@ static int ak8975_read_axis(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, int index, int *val)
 {
 	struct ak8975_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
 	struct i2c_client *client = data->client;
-	u16 meas_reg;
-	s16 raw;
 	int ret;

 	mutex_lock(&data->lock);
@@ -401,16 +399,11 @@ static int ak8975_read_axis(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, int index, int *val)
 		dev_err(&client->dev, "Read axis data fails\n");
 		goto exit;
 	}
-	meas_reg = ret;

 	mutex_unlock(&data->lock);

-	/* Endian conversion of the measured values. */
-	raw = (s16) (le16_to_cpu(meas_reg));
-
 	/* Clamp to valid range. */
-	raw = clamp_t(s16, raw, -4096, 4095);
-	*val = raw;
+	*val = clamp_t(s16, ret, -4096, 4095);
 	return IIO_VAL_INT;

 exit:
--
1.9.1





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