Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1307973

Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice

From Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice
Date 2016-01-13 03:10 +0100
Message-ID <qQj2O-1jj-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <qOsWC-7b8-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <qPMzU-4ae-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <qPMTg-4l0-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <qQ2Y2-6UJ-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> writes:

> Le 11/01/2016 16:43, Måns Rullgård a écrit :
>> Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Le 08/01/2016 01:11, Mans Rullgard a écrit :
>>>> The driver currently chooses between internal chip-select or gpio
>>>> based on the existence of the cs-gpios DT property which fails on
>>>> non-DT systems and also enforces the same choice for all devices.
>>>
>>> Well, I fear that such a per-device choice may impact further the driver
>>> than just moving a field from one structure to another...
>> 
>> Could you please elaborate?
>
> Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is that the DT property may
> need to be  to the SPI device node and not the controller anymore, for a
> need of coherency.
> That would imply modifying the binding and I don't want that for such an
> useless "improvement".
>
>>> Moreover, I have the feeling that it was not the objective of this
>>> patch.
>> 
>> Your feeling is mistaken.  If it's somehow impossible to mix CS types,
>> please explain why.
>
> Please only fix the avr32 issue with CS gpio selection that I admit we
> have. I don't need nor want to mix CS types: it just doesn't make sense
> to allow it.

There's also this comment in spi.h regarding struct spi_master:

 * @cs_gpios: Array of GPIOs to use as chip select lines; one per CS
 *	number. Any individual value may be -ENOENT for CS lines that
 *	are not GPIOs (driven by the SPI controller itself).


-- 
Måns Rullgård

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

[PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-08 01:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> - 2016-01-11 16:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-11 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> - 2016-01-12 10:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-12 10:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-13 03:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> - 2016-01-11 17:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: improve internal vs gpio chip-select choice Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-11 17:40 +0100

csiph-web