linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: fsi: Reduce max transfer size to 8 bytes

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Message-ID: <20210719152010.GB4174@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:20:10 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        robh+dt@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: fsi: Reduce max transfer size to 8 bytes

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:34:38PM -0500, Eddie James wrote:

> Security changes in the SPI controller - in the device microcode. I can
> reword the commit if you like.

How will people end up running this device microcode?  Is this a bug
fix, or is this going to needlessly reduce performance for people with
existing hardware?

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