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Re: [LINUX RFC v2 1/4] spi: add support of two chip selects & data stripe

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On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 02:35:52PM +0200, Martin Sperl wrote:
> > On 03.09.2015, at 14:12, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > This isn't saying that the controller supports more than one chip, it's
> > saying that the controller supports asserting more than one chip select
> > at once which isn't the same thing.  I'm also not entirely sure that
> > this makes sense as a separate feature to the data striping one - I'm
> > struggling to think of a way to use this sensibly separately to that.

> Well - there is one use-case that I can think of:
> fbtft has the requirement for some devices to control a GPIO to
> differentiate between command and data getting transferred
> - sort of 9 bit.

That's another thing again, isn't it?  It's one device switching between
two different control interfaces at runtime rather than two devices
controlled in lockstep.

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Re: [LINUX RFC v2 1/4] spi: add support of two chip selects & data  stripe Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-09-03 14:20 +0200
  Re: [LINUX RFC v2 1/4] spi: add support of two chip selects & data stripe Martin Sperl <martin@sperl.org> - 2015-09-04 14:40 +0200
    Re: [LINUX RFC v2 1/4] spi: add support of two chip selects & data  stripe Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-09-04 17:40 +0200
      Re: [LINUX RFC v2 1/4] spi: add support of two chip selects & data stripe Martin Sperl <martin@sperl.org> - 2015-09-04 17:50 +0200

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