Re: [spi-devel-general] adding bits_per_word to struct spi_board_info to mirror struct spi_device

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On 5/8/07, David Brownell <[email protected]> wrote:
On Monday 07 May 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 4/25/07, David Brownell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > is there something obvious i'm missing ?  seems to me that if the
> > > generic spi framework respects bits_per_word on a per-spi device
> > > basis, then it should be exposed in the generic info structure so that
> > > the setting can be tracked in the boards file ...
> >
> > The initial driver set didn't need it, that's all.  ISTR someone
> > else pointed out this quirk, but never provided a patch to resolve
> > the issue.
>
> so which direction should it be ?  or should it be both ? :)

Add bits_per_word to spi_board_info, and have the device creation
logic copy it into spi_device as it's created.

OK

> Blackfin at the moment is doing DMA/bits_per_word setup in the boards
> ... we could move these to the drivers and have each one just call
> spi_setup() at init, or i could post a patch for the common framework
> if you think that's an OK direction to [also] go ...

I don't see what you're getting at here.  The SPI core doesn't
do anything with DMA, beyond passing DMA addresses through when
necessary.  (Needed to handle messages derived from scatterlists,
since I don't want lower layers to know scatterlists, but otherwise
uncommon.)

sorry, i didnt mean to confuse things ... i was referring to the only
things that we are configuring at the moment on a per-spi device basis
in Blackfin is bits_per_word and DMA status ... when i said posting a
patch for common framework, i was referring to just bits_per_word
-mike
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