[RFT PATCH] spi: bcm2835: reduce the abuse of the GPIO API

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 09:49:34PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>
> 
> Currently the bcm2835 SPI driver uses functions meant for GPIO providers
> exclusively to locate the GPIO chip it gets its CS pins from and request
> the relevant pin. I don't know the background and what bug forced this.

...

>  	/*
> +	 * TODO: The code below is a slightly better alternative to the utter
> +	 * abuse of the GPIO API that I found here before. It creates a
> +	 * temporary lookup table, assigns it to the SPI device, gets the GPIO
> +	 * descriptor and then releases the lookup table.
>  	 *
> +	 * Still the real problem is unsolved. Looks like the cs_gpiods table
> +	 * is not assigned correctly from DT?
>  	 */

I'm not sure why this quirk is here. AFAIR the SPI CS quirks are located in
gpiolib-of.c.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko