linux-kernel - Re: Applied "spi: imx: dynamic burst length adjust for PIO mode" to the spi tree

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Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2017 07:55:55 -0700
From:   Jiada Wang <jiada_wang@...tor.com>
To:     Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
CC:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, <festevam@...il.com>,
        <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Applied "spi: imx: dynamic burst length adjust for PIO mode"
 to the spi tree

Hello Sascha

On 06/30/2017 05:14 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 01:00:22PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> The patch
>>
>>     spi: imx: dynamic burst length adjust for PIO mode
>>
>> has been applied to the spi tree at
>>
>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi.git
> Argh, I wasn't fast enough. I just ran spi-loopback-test.ko with this
> patch and it doesn't work properly.
>
>> +	if (spi_imx->count == spi_imx->remainder) {
>> +		ctrl = readl(spi_imx->base + MX51_ECSPI_CTRL);
>> +		ctrl&= ~MX51_ECSPI_CTRL_BL_MASK;
>> +		if (spi_imx->count>  MX51_ECSPI_CTRL_MAX_BURST) {
>> +			spi_imx->remainder = spi_imx->count %
>> +					     MX51_ECSPI_CTRL_MAX_BURST;
>> +			val = MX51_ECSPI_CTRL_MAX_BURST;
> This is wrong. MX51_ECSPI_CTRL_MAX_BURST contains the burst length in
> bytes, but the register 'val' is written to takes the burst length in
> bits - 1, so this should be:
>
> 			val = MX51_ECSPI_CTRL_MAX_BURST * 8 - 1;
>
> instead.
Thanks for pointing this out,
I will submit a fix patch.


Thanks,
Jiada
> Sascha
>