Re: [PATCH] spi: dts: sun4i: Add support for inter-word wait cycles using the SPI Wait Clock Register

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Nov 20 2015 - 11:04:03 EST


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Marcus Weseloh wrote:
> Adds support and documentation for a new slave device property
> "sun4i,spi-wdelay" that allows to set the SPI Wait Clock Register per
> device / transfer. The SPI hardware will wait the specified amount of
> SPI clock periods (plus a constant 3 clock periods) before transmitting
> the next word.
>
> The constant additional 3 clock periods are not documented by the vendor
> and have been determined by analyzing the generated waveforms across
> many different transmission speeds.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcus Weseloh <mweseloh42@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-sun4i.txt | 11 +++++++++++
> drivers/spi/spi-sun4i.c | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-sun4i.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-sun4i.txt
> index de827f5..9c4d723 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-sun4i.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-sun4i.txt
> @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Required properties:
> - "mod": the parent module clock
> - clock-names: Must contain the clock names described just above
>
> +Optional properties for slave devices:
> +- sun4i,spi-wdelay : delay between transmission of words, specified in number
> + of SPI clock periods (actual delay is wdelay + 3 clock periods)

Seems like a common property to me. For a common one, it should be the
actual delay and the driver needs to subtract the 3 clock periods here.

Rob
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