[PATCH v6 19/23] drivers/fsi: Add GPIO based FSI master
Christopher Bostic
cbostic at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu May 11 09:14:13 PDT 2017
On 5/10/17 8:58 PM, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> 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.
Hi Jeremy,
Understand now -will make the change.
Thanks
-Chris
> Cheers,
>
>
> Jeremy
>
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