Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] spi: dw: Round of n_bytes to power of 2

[Serge Semin]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 04:39:30PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Joy Chakraborty
> > Sent: 21 April 2023 10:22
> ...
> > Sure, I can make the following change in the formatting and send the
> > patch series:
> >          dws->n_bytes =
> >                  roundup_pow_of_two(DIV_ROUND_UP(transfer->bits_per_word,
> >                                                  BITS_PER_BYTE));
>
 
> Won't checkpatch bleat about that?

Why would it?

> 
> Is it ever actually valid for the caller to provide a
> value that isn't 8, 16 or 32 ?

Judging by this
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.3-rc7/source/drivers/spi/spi.c#L3630
it is. SPI-controller also supports word lengths within the
pre-synthesized range. So it's up to the SPI-peripherals and their
protocols what word length to select.

-Serge(y)

> 
> I'm sure it looked as though some other lengths/counts
> where likely to go badly wrong.
> 
> I know there are times when it is useful to bit-bang 'odd'
> numbers of bits - like command+address+delay for fast reads
> but that is a sub-32bit transfer so (at least somewhere)
> is 1 word but not all the bits.
> 
> 	David
> 
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