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Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken big-endian 64bit platforms using 'global_lock'

From Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken big-endian 64bit platforms using 'global_lock'
Date 2015-09-25 02:10 +0200
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On 25-09-15, 02:17, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Actually, what about adding a local u32 variable, say val, here and doing
> 
> >  	if (!debugfs_create_x32("gpe", 0444, dev_dir, (u32 *)&first_ec->gpe))
> >  		goto error;
> >  	if (!debugfs_create_bool("use_global_lock", 0444, dev_dir,
> > -				 (u32 *)&first_ec->global_lock))
> > +				 &first_ec->global_lock))
> 
> 	if (!debugfs_create_bool("use_global_lock", 0444, dev_dir, &val))
> 
> >  		goto error;
> 
> 	first_ec->global_lock = val;
> 
> And then you can turn val into bool just fine without changing the structure
> definition.

sure. Looks good.

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viresh
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Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken big-endian 64bit platforms using 'global_lock' "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2015-09-25 01:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken big-endian 64bit platforms  using 'global_lock' Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-09-25 02:10 +0200

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