linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: core: Validate lenght of the transfers in message

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Message-ID: <20140213212757.GM4524@book.gsilab.sittig.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:27:57 +0100
From:	Gerhard Sittig <gsi@...x.de>
To:	"Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@...sol.com>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: core: Validate lenght of the transfers in message

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 16:46 +0200, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> 
> From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@...sol.com>
> 
> SPI transfer lenght should be a power-of-two multiple
> of eight bits.

Are you suggesting that an SPI transfer cannot consist of e.g.
three bytes?  This would be surprising, and certainly would be
rather wrong an assumption.  Am I missing/misunderstanding
something?


virtually yours
Gerhard Sittig
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