[PATCH] sst25l.c: simplify reading the device ManID/DevID

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 12:11 -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:37 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:17 -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> >> The Read-ID command will continuously output the Manufacture ID and Device ID
> >> until the command is terminated by a low to high transition on the CE# pin.
> >> We can take advantage of this in the sst25l_match_device routine by reading
> >> both bytes in one spi_write_then_read transaction.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
> >> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
> >> Cc: Andre Renaud <andre at bluewatersys.com>
> >> Cc: Ryan Mallon <ryan at bluewatersys.com>
> >
> > Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git / dunno.
> 
> Artem,
> 
> I have discovered that the Read-Status-Register command has the same problem.
> With the SST25L SPI flash chips, if the chip enable is deasserted after sending
> a command that command will get aborted.
> 
> I ran across this while testing a new spi master driver for the ep93xx on an
> EDB9307A dev board.  That board uses the processors SFRMOUT signal as part of
> the chip select logic.  Unfortunately the ep93xx only asserts the SFRMOUT
> signal as long as the spi transmit fifo contains data.  As soon as the last
> bit is clocked into the receive fifo it gets deasserted.  Many of the other
> ep93xx based boards have that same issue.
> 
> I have an updated patch that changes both of these into one synchronous message
> which fixes the sst25l_status and sst25l_match_device functions.  These changes
> should be transparent to any users of this driver.
> 
> Could you drop the current patch and I will submit the updated one for review?

Of course, just send it.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)