[PATCH 0/3] spi: spi-imx: fix use of more than four chip selects

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 25/04/2023 15.45, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The current spi-imx driver completely fails when used with more than
> four (gpio) chip-selects, since the chip select number is used
> unconditionally as shift amount when updating the control and
> configuration registers, so the code ends up modifying random bits
> outside the intended fields.
> 
> This fixes it by making use of the unused_native_cs variable filled in
> by the spi core, and use that as the "channel number" for all gpiod
> chip selects.

So I obviously hadn't seen
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230318222132.3373-1-kgroeneveld@lenbrook.com/T/#u
when I sent this.

I did consider that approach, but rejected it because it wouldn't work
with mixing native and gpio chip selects. Say, somebody uses SS0
natively, but then also have four additional gpios. Then chipselect 4
would end up activating both the SS0 pin as well as the gpio, selecting
both devices.

I don't know if that's really a realistic scenario. But at least I think
the driver should then somehow have a way to indicate to the core that
one should either use native or gpio chip selects, but not a mix.

Thoughts?

Rasmus