Re: [PATCH 1/1] spi-sun6i: Fix chipselect/clock bug

[Andre Przywara]

On Fri, 21 May 2021 22:19:13 +0200
Ralf Schlatterbeck <rsc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

> From: Mirko Vogt <mirko-dev|linux@xxxxxxx>
> 
> The current sun6i SPI implementation initializes the transfer too early,
> resulting in SCK going high before the transfer. When using an additional
> (gpio) chipselect with sun6i, the chipselect is asserted at a time when
> clock is high, making the SPI transfer fail.
> 
> This is due to SUN6I_GBL_CTL_BUS_ENABLE being written into
> SUN6I_GBL_CTL_REG at an early stage. Moving that to the transfer
> function, hence, right before the transfer starts, mitigates that
> problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mirko Vogt <mirko-dev|linux@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Schlatterbeck <rsc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me now, thanks for the changes!

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>

Some comments for future contributions (should not hold back that
patch, I think):
- Single patch set series don't bother to have a "1/1" after the
  "PATCH".
- You are expected to increase the version number when you send a new
  version, to show that *this* is better than the previous post and
  this version should be merged. Otherwise the maintainer might pick
  the wrong version. "git format-patch -v2" and "git send-email" will
  automatically take care of this.

> ---
> Updated patch with suggested improvements by Andre Przywara
> For oscilloscope screenshots with/without the patch, see my blog post
> https://blog.runtux.com/posts/2019/04/18/
> or the discussion in the armbian forum at
> https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4330-spi-gpio-chip-select-support/
> (my logo there is a penguin).

Please keep in mind that text after the dashes doesn't make it in it
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not uncommon to have a 2 page commit message for a one-liner patch.

Cheers,
Andre



> 
>  drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c b/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c
> index cc8401980125..23ad052528db 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c
> @@ -379,6 +379,10 @@ static int sun6i_spi_transfer_one(struct spi_master *master,
>  	}
>  
>  	sun6i_spi_write(sspi, SUN6I_CLK_CTL_REG, reg);
> +	/* Finally enable the bus - doing so before might raise SCK to HIGH */
> +	reg = sun6i_spi_read(sspi, SUN6I_GBL_CTL_REG);
> +	reg |= SUN6I_GBL_CTL_BUS_ENABLE;
> +	sun6i_spi_write(sspi, SUN6I_GBL_CTL_REG, reg);
>  
>  	/* Setup the transfer now... */
>  	if (sspi->tx_buf)
> @@ -504,7 +508,7 @@ static int sun6i_spi_runtime_resume(struct device *dev)
>  	}
>  
>  	sun6i_spi_write(sspi, SUN6I_GBL_CTL_REG,
> -			SUN6I_GBL_CTL_BUS_ENABLE | SUN6I_GBL_CTL_MASTER | SUN6I_GBL_CTL_TP);
> +			SUN6I_GBL_CTL_MASTER | SUN6I_GBL_CTL_TP);
>  
>  	return 0;
>