[PATCH v6 19/23] drivers/fsi: Add GPIO based FSI master
Jeremy Kerr
jk at ozlabs.org
Wed May 10 18:58:16 PDT 2017
Hi Chris,
> I don't think we'd want this per master. The lock is for the 'top'
> master issuing commands. Only the top master can initiate any
> transactions on the bus to any devices connected downstream. Downstream
> masters such as hub masters, etc... cannot initiate a command.
I think what Joel meant there was that we have it per *GPIO* master; if
there are two GPIO masters on a system, there's no need to provide
mutual exclusion to each (separate) set of GPIOs.
To implement this, we'd just move the lock into struct fsi_master_gpio.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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