[PATCH V2] spi: bcm2835: enabling polling mode for transfers shorter than 30us

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:29:49PM +0200, Martin Sperl wrote:

> Approaches I can think of to solve the issue:
> * accept this fact as a reality - drivers should be able to handle
>   such situations in a well-behaved manner
> * remove polling mode completely from the spi-bcm2835 driver
> * remove the timeout code when polling
> * make the timeout a warning
> * set the timeout to something much longer say 200ms
> * stop the system from interrupting (either scheduler or interrupt
>   handler) for the next 30us or the calculated timeout-period.
>   Maybe by holding a spinlock (or similar) / disabling interrupts /
>   ...?
> * others

> So the question is: which approach should get implemented?

Running without a timeout doesn't feel safe - the standard thing here is
to busy wait for a short period then fall back to something that sleeps
if that times out.
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