[PATCH] spi/pl022: compare bitwidth to enums

Kevin Wells kevin.wells at nxp.com
Thu Sep 30 12:21:27 EDT 2010


> >> The enums from <linux/amba/pl022.h> are actually off-by-one
> >> since bitwidth 4 is defined as 0x03, causing weirdness when
> >> we were trying out some 9-bit peripheral. Fix this by
> >> comparing to the enum values rather than hardcoded values
> >> and also fixing the enum to something reasonable.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at stericsson.com>
> >> (...)
> >> -       if (chip_info->data_size <= 8) {
> >> +       if (chip_info->data_size <= SSP_DATA_BITS_8) {
> >>                dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "1 <= n <=8 bits per word\n");
> >>                chip->n_bytes = 1;
> >>                chip->read = READING_U8;
> >>                chip->write = WRITING_U8;
> >> -       } else if (chip_info->data_size <= 16) {
> >> +       } else if (chip_info->data_size <= SSP_DATA_BITS_16) {
> >
> > I just realized that Kevin Wells patch actually patch away this problem
> > so merge his patch and disregard this for the optimal solution.
> >
> >>  enum ssp_data_size {
> >> -       SSP_DATA_BITS_4 = 0x03, SSP_DATA_BITS_5, SSP_DATA_BITS_6,
> >> +       SSP_DATA_BITS_4 = 0x04, SSP_DATA_BITS_5, SSP_DATA_BITS_6,
> >
> > This is not good because this is used for default register
> > settings too (I didn't notice, typical).
> 
> And it creates a 1:1 mapping of name to the same number.  Insane!
> Just use the integer number directly.  :-)

The spi->mode patch I submitted a few weeks ago actually removed the
data_size field from chip_info and uses spi->data_bus_bits instead.
The values passed into the dss field for the control0 register
subtracts 1 from the spi->data_bus_bits to get the correct value now.

Reference: 09/16/2010
[PATCH] spi: amba_pl022: Add spi->mode support to AMBA SPI driver

> 
> >
> > If anyone still wants a patch for older kernels I can provide a
> > patch against 2.6.36-rc6 with just the first two hunks.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Linus Walleij
> >
> 
> 
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