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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200
commit5f4457a4f62cc9d78e04c0eb12ff0540899aad89 (patch)
tree0b973d527ea6b2ae31e08da0746b4965a3c5a6d8 /Documentation/spi/spi-summary
parent9b94b3a19b13e094c10f65f24bc358f6ffe4eacd (diff)
parentb87297fb405ef13cac375f202d114323b076a56d (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu
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@@ -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