linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation/spi/spidev

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:41:56 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@...il.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Adrian Remonda <adrianremonda@...il.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c: use one rx buffer

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:24:21AM -0800, Joshua Clayton wrote:

> default_rx and rx are needlessly different.
> Use one buffer, local to transmit()

Why?  This isn't what I'd expect from black boxing the API, from a
userspace point of view the transfer is atomic and in an ideal world
we'd be able to do direct to/from memory transfers rather than memcpy()
into kernel space which means that userspace should assume the transfers
are going on simultaneously even if they don't currently.

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