Re: [PATCH] spi: dw: Set default value if reg-io-width isn't specified

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Aug 08 2023 - 13:56:25 EST


On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:00:18AM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> On 2023/08/08 7:57, Serge Semin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 09:16:21AM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:

> > > According to the dt-bindings, the default value of reg-io-width is 4.
> > > However, the value becomes zero when reg-io-width isn't specified.

> > This semantic is implied by the dw_read_io_reg() and dw_write_io_reg()
> > methods. It doesn't seem like that much necessary duplicating it in the
> > property parse procedure, if not to say - redundant.

> I see. Currently since the variable reg_io_width has no other references
> other than dw_{read, write}_io_reg(), it means the default value is taken
> if this is zero.

> So, I think we should be careful when actually using the value of
> this variable.

It does feel like a sensible robustness improvement, even if it's not
fixing a specific issue now it might save us from future issues.

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