linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] driver: spi: Modify core to compute the message length

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Message-ID: <20130708150226.GA16401@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:02:26 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@...com>
Cc:	spi-devel-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, grant.likely@...aro.org,
	balbi@...com, rnayak@...com, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] driver: spi: Modify core to compute the message
 length

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:12:58PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
> Make spi core calculate the message length while
> populating the other transfer parameters. This will
> be useful in cases where controller driver need to configure its 
> framelength field without iterating through the linklist again in the
> driver controller.

This seems fine but I'm going to hold off on applying it until it's
reqired since it'll bloat the structure a little and it's a bit unusual
to need it.  We should do an audit in case some drivers do need this
though...

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