linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] spi: core: Fix logic mismatch in spi_master.set

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:23:37 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] spi: core: Fix logic mismatch in spi_master.set_cs()

Hi Mark,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:36:51PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
>> The documentation for spi_master.set_cs() says:
>>
>>     assert or deassert chip select, true to assert
>>
>> i.e. its "enable" parameter uses assertion-level logic.

>> For SPI controller-based chip selects, active high chip selects must be
>> handled by the SPI master driver, if supported (some SPI controllers have
>> configurable chip select polarity).
>
> This also pushes the handling of CS_HIGH back out into the driver which
> doesn't seem like it's helping anything.  Flipping the sense of enable

It depends: on hardware with separate register bits for chip select polarity
and chip select assertion it avoids having to invert the enable value a second
time.

> when calling set_cs() is probably OK though.

Just flipping the sense of enable still needs a documentation update.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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