Re: [spi-devel-general] [PATCH] trivial: some fixes in spidocumentation

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Mon Nov 02 2009 - 07:13:57 EST


Hi,

the typo fixes look good, still...

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:28:14PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
> index deab51d..607aa97 100644
> --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
> +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ active. So the master must set the clock to inactive before selecting
> a slave, and the slave can tell the chosen polarity by sampling the
> clock level when its select line goes active. That's why many devices
> support for example both modes 0 and 3: they don't care about polarity,
> -and alway clock data in/out on rising clock edges.
> +and always clock data in/out on rising clock edges.
>
>
> How do these driver programming interfaces work?
> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ And SOC-specific utility code might look something like:
> struct mysoc_spi_data *pdata2;
>
> pdata2 = kmalloc(sizeof *pdata2, GFP_KERNEL);
> - *pdata2 = pdata;
> + *pdata2 = *pdata;

... this looks correct, because a few lines above it is stated:

static struct mysoc_spi_data __initdata pdata = { ... };

No pointer here. But yeah, pretty confusing for an example.

> ...
> if (n == 2) {
> spi2->dev.platform_data = pdata2;
> @@ -427,8 +427,8 @@ any more such messages.
> it, should only be used with small amounts of data where the
> cost of an extra copy may be ignored. It's designed to support
> common RPC-style requests, such as writing an eight bit command
> - and reading a sixteen bit response -- spi_w8r16() being one its
> - wrappers, doing exactly that.
> + and reading a sixteen bit response -- spi_w8r16() being one of
> + its wrappers, doing exactly that.
>
> Some drivers may need to modify spi_device characteristics like the
> transfer mode, wordsize, or clock rate. This is done with spi_setup(),
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
>
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