linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] spi: core: handle timeout error from transfer

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Date:   Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:00:55 +0300
From:   Sergey Suloev <ssuloev@...altech.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] spi: core: handle timeout error from
 transfer_one()

On 04/03/2018 06:52 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 06:29:00PM +0300, Sergey Suloev wrote:
>> As long as sun4i/sun6i SPI drivers have overriden the default
>> "wait for completion" procedure then we need to properly
>> handle -ETIMEDOUT error from transfer_one().
> Why is this connected to those drivers specifically?

These 2 drivers have their own "waiting" code and not using the code 
from SPI core.