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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 09:33:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-11 09:33:15 +0200 |
| commit | 134cbf35c739bf89c51fd975a33a6b87507482c4 (patch) | |
| tree | c30536dcbb6e99a0f204879bbe5a19bfb27cccf8 /Documentation/spi/spi-summary | |
| parent | 2feceeff1e771850e49f9074307f071964fd9e3e (diff) | |
| parent | 091bf7624d1c90cec9e578a18529f615213ff847 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into x86/mm
Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-rc2 base - sync it up with
all the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/spi/spi-summary')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary index 0f5122eb282..4a02d2508bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary @@ -511,10 +511,16 @@ SPI MASTER METHODS This sets up the device clock rate, SPI mode, and word sizes. Drivers may change the defaults provided by board_info, and then call spi_setup(spi) to invoke this routine. It may sleep. + Unless each SPI slave has its own configuration registers, don't change them right away ... otherwise drivers could corrupt I/O that's in progress for other SPI devices. + ** BUG ALERT: for some reason the first version of + ** many spi_master drivers seems to get this wrong. + ** When you code setup(), ASSUME that the controller + ** is actively processing transfers for another device. + master->transfer(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message) This must not sleep. Its responsibility is arrange that the transfer happens and its complete() callback is issued. The two |