RE: [PATCH V1 18/26] spi: tegra114: add support for hw based cs
From: Sowjanya Komatineni
Date: Mon Apr 01 2019 - 14:40:46 EST
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:56:39PM -0700, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
>
> > Tegra SPI driver default uses SW CS control for transfers and HW CS
> > control can be enabled through SPI client device node DT property
> > nvidia,enable-hw-based-cs and is used only for single transfers.
>
> Why have a property - if this feature works and is useful why would a system ever not want to use it?
> > + single_xfer = list_is_singular(&msg->transfers);
> > list_for_each_entry(xfer, &msg->transfers, transfer_list) {
> > u32 cmd1;
> >
> > reinit_completion(&tspi->xfer_completion);
> >
> > - cmd1 = tegra_spi_setup_transfer_one(spi, xfer, is_first_msg);
> > + cmd1 = tegra_spi_setup_transfer_one(spi, xfer, is_first_msg,
> > + single_xfer);
>
> It's not sufficient to check if there's only one transfer, you also need to make sure that the driver isn't using cs_change to use non-standard chip select handling.
Yes we can avoid DT and force to use HW CS incase of all single transfers without cs_change. Will update in next version.