Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: add FTDI MPSSE SPI controller driver

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:21:27AM +0100, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
> Mark Brown broonie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> >> +	if (max_cs > 12) {
> >> +		dev_err(dev, "Invalid max CS in platform data: %d\n", max_cs);
> >> +		return -EINVAL;
> >> +	}
> >> +	dev_dbg(dev, "CS count %d, max CS %d\n", num_cs, max_cs);
> >> +	max_cs += 1; /* including CS0 */  

> >Why not just size the array based on the platform data?

> The driver must also support multiple SPI slaves with additional control
> pins (besides SPI chip-select gpios). There are devices with not adjacent
> chip-select gpios or devices with single chip-select gpio starting at
> some offset. The array size is not always the number of chip-selects
> or the max. chip-select, e.g.:

A few unused entries really won't matter.

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