linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 05/11] spi: omap2-mcspi: enhance pinctrl support

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Date:	Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:53:04 +0000
From:	"Hebbar, Gururaja" <gururaja.hebbar@...com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 05/11] spi: omap2-mcspi: enhance pinctrl support

On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 00:57:26, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 03:43:05PM +0530, Hebbar Gururaja wrote:
> > Amend the spi omap controller to optionally take a pin control
> > handle and set the state of the pins to:
> > 
> > - "default" on boot, resume and before performing an spi transfer
> > - "idle" after initial default, after resume default, and after each
> > spi xfer
> > - "sleep" on suspend()
> 
> Looking at this code I can't really see what's OMAP-specific about it -
> exactly the same flow should apply to pretty much any SPI controller,
> especially given that the code will happily ignore missing states.
> We're just setting the idle state when not actively transferring data
> which seems sensible and generic.
> 
> This suggests to me that we should be adding this code into the core,
> probably joined up with the transfer_one_message stuff, so that any
> hardware which has an idle state will be able to get the benefit.  Can
> anyone think of a reason why we shouldn't do that?

Let me pull out some info about these and come back

> 


Regards, 
Gururaja
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