Re: [PATCH 1/3] spi: add xtfpga SPI controller driver

[Max Filippov]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:59:47AM +0400, Max Filippov wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > This driver is not actually compatible with the tlv320aic23 driver since
>> > it needs 8 bit words, you need to at least support that.  You don't need
>
>> That's strange, because the codec datasheet says the following (section
>> 3.1.1):
>
>> A control word consists of 16 bits, starting with the MSB. The data bits are
>> latched on the rising edge of SCLK. A rising edge on CS after the 16th rising
>> clock edge latches the data word into the AIC (see Figure 3-1).
>
>> And tlv320aic23 has the following regmap:
>
>> const struct regmap_config tlv320aic23_regmap = {
>>         .reg_bits = 7,
>>         .val_bits = 9,
>
> Yes, and regmap will format that itself for transmission in 8 bit words
> so you don't want the SPI controller to also do byte swapping.
>
>> and its SPI interface accordingly does the following in .probe:
>
>>         spi->bits_per_word = 16
>>         spi->mode = SPI_MODE_0;
>>         ret = spi_setup(spi);
>
> That's buggy, drivers should never configure anything more than 8 bits
> per word with regmap.

Ok, so the driver should allow for 8 bit transfers and regmap will arrange
transfers as 8-bit pairs, making CS to be asserted for 16 bits, right?

Hmmm... I see the only way to support that with that hardware: advertise
8 bit support, buffer bytes up to 16 bits, send 16 bit words on CS deassertion
request, log violations verbosely. Other ideas?

>> > hardware in the controller to support a GPIO chip select, the whole
>> > point is that the controller chip select isn't wired up and a GPIO is
>> > used instead.
>
>> Actually it's not GPIO. The controller asserts CS line once we set the
>> start bit while the busy bit is cleared and deasserts it after 16 SCK
>> pulses.
>
> You're missing the point.  The controller chip select line can do what
> it likes, it's not connected to the target device if a GPIO is being
> used.

In my case SPI controller is wired directly to the codec with three
wires: SDIN, SCLK and CS. There are no registers that can control
either of these wires independently of others.

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max
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