[PATCH] mtd: sst25l: fix reads with broken spi-masters

David Brownell david-b at pacbell.net
Fri Jan 14 17:34:33 EST 2011



--- On Fri, 1/14/11, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:

> > The bug _is_ in the spi peripheral on the ep93xx.
> > 

> 
> No, David is correct.  The fault is in the master
> driver.  It is perfectly valid (and common) for spi
> peripherals to required the SS line to remain asserted over
> the entire transfer. 

And that's what the Linux SPI stack requires,
so any master driver that doesn't keep the
slave selected during the entiretransfer is buggy.



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