Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: bcm-mspi: Add support for Broadcom MSPI driver.

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu May 14 2015 - 17:43:41 EST


On 14/05/15 13:12, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:55:32PM -0700, Jonathan Richardson wrote:
>> On 15-05-14 12:08 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> All it takes is one hardware engineer who sees a SPI controller and a
>>> GPIO they can use for chip select; I wouldn't be so sure that nobody
>>> ever fixed this up locally (or happened to use a device that only needed
>>> single duplex).
>
>> Hi Mark. Would it help if we just set the flags to half duplex using
>> SPI_MASTER_HALF_DUPLEX when we register the master?
>
> That would deal with the data corruption issues, yes. Though it seems
> like there are some people who want full duplex support here - I don't
> know if any of them can point you at suitable hardware to test?

I am fine with having the driver supporting only half-duplex for now,
considering that Jonathan and Scott have no peripheral to test
full-duplex with.

Getting you platforms and test setups could take more time than needed
so, let's proceed with the shortest path.
--
Florian
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