linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] SPI: Ingenic: Add support for use GPIO as chip select line.

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Date:   Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:10:47 +0100
From:   Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@...yeetech.com>, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        krzk+dt@...nel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, contact@...ur-rojek.eu,
        dongsheng.qiu@...enic.com, aric.pzqi@...enic.com,
        rick.tyliu@...enic.com, sernia.zhou@...mail.com,
        zhenwenjin@...il.com, reimu@...omaker.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] SPI: Ingenic: Add support for use GPIO as chip select
 line.

Hi,

Le mar., avril 19 2022 at 18:00:41 +0100, Mark Brown 
<broonie@...nel.org> a écrit :
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 05:36:46PM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>>  Le sam., avril 16 2022 at 19:55:13 +0800, Zhou Yanjie
>>  > On 2022/4/15 下午11:00, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> 
>>  > > > -    ctlr->num_chipselect = 2;
>>  > > > +    ctlr->use_gpio_descriptors = true;
> 
>>  > > I wonder if this should be set conditionally instead. Maybe set 
>> it
>>  > > to "true" if the "num-cs" property exists?
> 
>>  > I'm not too sure, but it seems some other drivers like 
>> "spi-sun6i.c",
>>  > "spi-stm32.c", "spi-s3c64xx.c", "spi-pic32.c", etc. set it
>>  > unconditionally.
> 
>>  Ok, maybe Mark can enlighten us here.
> 
> use_gpio_descriptions is just selecting which version of the GPIO APIs
> we should use if we're handling GPIOs rather than if we should handle
> them.  We've got one last driver using the numerical GPIO APIs, once
> that one is converted we should just be able to drop the flag since
> everything will be using descriptors.

Thank you Mark.

Cheers,
-Paul