Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: ad7192: Use the dedicated reset function

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sat Sep 16 2017 - 18:22:34 EST


On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:31:06 +0200
Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 14.09.2017 15:50, Stefan Popa wrote:
> > SPI host drivers can use DMA to transfer data, so the buffer should be properly allocated.
> > Keeping it on the stack could cause an undefined behavior.
> >
> > The dedicated reset function solves this issue.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Popa <stefan.popa@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git rather than staging
branch as the reset functionality is reasonably recent and
not going to be available in stable kernels etc..

Good work. I was reading this on a plane the other day and
noticed the same issue - always nice when someone else
fixes something on your todo list ;)

Jonathan

>
> Well done!
>
>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7192.c | 4 +---
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7192.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7192.c
> > index d11c6de..6150d27 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7192.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7192.c
> > @@ -223,11 +223,9 @@ static int ad7192_setup(struct ad7192_state *st,
> > struct iio_dev *indio_dev = spi_get_drvdata(st->sd.spi);
> > unsigned long long scale_uv;
> > int i, ret, id;
> > - u8 ones[6];
> >
> > /* reset the serial interface */
> > - memset(&ones, 0xFF, 6);
> > - ret = spi_write(st->sd.spi, &ones, 6);
> > + ret = ad_sd_reset(&st->sd, 48);
> > if (ret < 0)
> > goto out;
> > usleep_range(500, 1000); /* Wait for at least 500us */
> >
>
>