Re: [V3] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Add support for SE DMA mode

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 17:57:42 EST


On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 02:40:32PM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 1:23 AM Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi
> >
> > + if (mas->cur_xfer_mode == GENI_SE_DMA) {
> > + if (m_cmd & SPI_RX_ONLY) {
> > + ret = geni_se_rx_dma_prep(se, xfer->rx_buf,
> > + xfer->len, &xfer->rx_dma);

> In response to v1 I asked if it's really OK to use "xfer->rx_dma" for
> your purposes since it's supposed to be managed by the SPI framework.

> It still makes me nervous to use it, even though it seems to work.
> Since we're using it in an undocumented way, I'd be nervous that the
> SPI framework might change what it's doing and break us in the future.

I'm a bit nervous too - why exactly are we doing the open coding here?

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