[PATCH v3 2/3] spi: microchip-core-qspi: don't attempt to transmit during emulated read-only dual/quad operations
From: Conor Dooley
Date: Thu Apr 30 2026 - 06:15:45 EST
From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The core will deal with reads by creating clock cycles itself, there's
no need to generate clock cycles by transmitting garbage data at the
driver level. Further, transmitting garbage data just bricks the transfer
since QSPI doesn't have a dedicated master-out line like MOSI in regular
SPI. I'm not entirely sure if the transfer is bricked because of the
garbage data being transmitted on the bus or because the core loses
track of whether it is supposed to be sending or receiving data.
Fixes: 8f9cf02c88528 ("spi: microchip-core-qspi: Add regular transfers")
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core-qspi.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core-qspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core-qspi.c
index ffa0f33a0ae09..70215a407b5a3 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core-qspi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core-qspi.c
@@ -690,18 +690,28 @@ static int mchp_coreqspi_transfer_one(struct spi_controller *ctlr, struct spi_de
struct spi_transfer *t)
{
struct mchp_coreqspi *qspi = spi_controller_get_devdata(ctlr);
+ bool dual_quad = false;
qspi->tx_len = t->len;
+ if (t->tx_nbits == SPI_NBITS_QUAD || t->rx_nbits == SPI_NBITS_QUAD ||
+ t->tx_nbits == SPI_NBITS_DUAL ||
+ t->rx_nbits == SPI_NBITS_DUAL)
+ dual_quad = true;
+
if (t->tx_buf)
qspi->txbuf = (u8 *)t->tx_buf;
if (!t->rx_buf) {
mchp_coreqspi_write_op(qspi);
- } else {
+ } else if (!dual_quad) {
qspi->rxbuf = (u8 *)t->rx_buf;
qspi->rx_len = t->len;
mchp_coreqspi_write_read_op(qspi);
+ } else {
+ qspi->rxbuf = (u8 *)t->rx_buf;
+ qspi->rx_len = t->len;
+ mchp_coreqspi_read_op(qspi);
}
return 0;
--
2.53.0