The data to be written is just a byte, so use writeb instead of writel. Also, dev3.base contains the address, not the data so referencing here is wrong. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter --- --- a/arch/mips/rb532/gpio.c +++ b/arch/mips/rb532/gpio.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ void set_latch_u5(unsigned char or_mask, spin_lock_irqsave(&dev3.lock, flags); dev3.state = (dev3.state | or_mask) & ~nand_mask; - writel(dev3.state, &dev3.base); + writeb(dev3.state, dev3.base); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev3.lock, flags); }