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

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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:05:20 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	"Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@...sol.com>
Cc:	Gerhard Sittig <gsi@...x.de>, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: core: Validate lenght of the transfers in message

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:16:05AM +0200, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:

> "SPI transfer length should be multiple of SPI word size, where SPI
> word size should be power-of-two multiple"

Yes, that's clearer though you could in theory have a three byte word
(I'm not sure that anyone would actually do that but it's possible).  I
do have a comment on the code as well.

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