Re: [RFC] spi: add spi multiplexing functions for dt

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Jan 24 2018 - 09:54:39 EST


On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 02:01:55PM +0000, Ben Whitten wrote:
> On 23 January 2018 at 11:11, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > level. Things that have their own transfer function would be better off
> > just being first order SPI controllers I think so that they get access
> > to everything the framework offers and can correctly advertise
> > capabilities and so on.

> This runs as a very simple fake SPI controller per bus that the mux is
> controlling. Having this custom transfer message allowed me to pop
> in the way my device exposes the downstream devices, through its
> regmap.

Which like I say is a problem - if your device (which just sounds like a
SPI controller) has different capabilities and constraints to the parent
then client drivers won't see that.

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