linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/21] spi: dw: Add full Baikal-T1 SPI Controllers support

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Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 13:24:44 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Ramil Zaripov <Ramil.Zaripov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@...rochip.com>,
        "wuxu . wu" <wuxu.wu@...wei.com>, Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/21] spi: dw: Add full Baikal-T1 SPI Controllers
 support

On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 01:28:08AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Originally I intended to merge a dedicated Baikal-T1 System Boot SPI
> Controller driver into the kernel and leave the DW APB SSI driver
> untouched. But after a long discussion (see the link at the bottom of the
> letter) Mark and Andy persuaded me to integrate what we developed there
> into the DW APB SSI core driver to be useful for another controllers,
> which may have got the same peculiarities/problems as ours:
> - No IRQ.
> - No DMA.
> - No GPIO CS, so a native CS is utilized.
> - small Tx/Rx FIFO depth.
> - Automatic CS assertion/de-assertion.
> - Slow system bus.
> All of them have been fixed in the framework of this patchset in some
> extent at least for the SPI memory operations. As I expected it wasn't
> that easy and the integration took that many patches as you can see from
> the subject. Though some of them are mere cleanups or weakly related with
> the subject fixes, but we just couldn't leave the code as is at some
> places since we were working with the DW APB SSI driver anyway. Here is
> what we did to fix the original DW APB SSI driver, to make it less messy.

Maybe it's time to put your name into MAINTAINERS for this driver?


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko