Re[2]: [PATCH 1/6] mc13xxx: Define maximum SPI clock frequency global to driver
Alexander Shiyan
shc_work at mail.ru
Fri Jul 20 04:17:49 EDT 2012
Hello.
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:11:36 +0200 от Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:05:21PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > >
> > > The values indeed look quite arbitrary, but it may be that a hardware
> > > design does not support such high frequencies. Maybe better
> > >
> > > if (!mc_dev->spi->max_speed_hz)
> > > mc_dev->spi->max_speed_hz = 20000000
> > >
> > > ?
> > On my opinion, tests for supported speed, is work for SPI-driver, not for device driver.
> > Is not it?
>
> So you mean that the i.MX spi drivers platform data should have a
> maximum speed field instead of the client drivers? Sounds good.
> In this case we can apply the patch.
No additional fields required. We are pass max_speed_hz option in the SPI-driver
to clock divider, so frequency cannot be higher than possible. Fixme.
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