linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: fsi: Remove multiple sequenced ops for restricted chips

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Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:50:38 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        joel@....id.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: fsi: Remove multiple sequenced ops for restricted
 chips

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 05:05:16PM -0500, Eddie James wrote:

> Updated restricted chips have trouble processing multiple sequenced
> operations. So remove the capability to sequence multiple operations and
> reduce the maximum transfer size to 8 bytes.

That's a very small limit, it would be nice to be able to identify
devices that can use the larger limit so they don't suffer needlessly.

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