Re: [PATCH 3/5] spi: dw-mmio: add MSCC Ocelot support

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 18/07/2018 00:34:37+0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Because the SPI controller deasserts the chip select when the TX fifo is
> > empty (which may happen in the middle of a transfer), the CS should be
> > handled by linux. Unfortunately, some or all of the first four chip
> > selects are not muxable as GPIOs, depending on the SoC.
> >
> > There is a way to bitbang those pins by using the SPI boot controller so
> > use it to set the chip selects.
> >
> > At init time, it is also necessary to give control of the SPI interface to
> > the Designware IP.
> 
> > +       ret = dw_spi_mscc_init(pdev, dwsmmio);
> > +       if (ret)
> > +               goto out;
> 
> > +       { .compatible = "mscc,ocelot-spi", .data = dw_spi_mscc_init},
> 
> Looks like you were thinking about something like
> 
> init_func = device_get_match_data(...);
> if (init_func) {
>  ret = init_func();
>  if (ret)
>    return ret;
> }
> 
> ?
> 

Ah sure, I forgot to do that after testing.

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