linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 02/16] spi: airoha: remove unnecessary restriction length

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Message-ID: <42116c7b-e9e5-4354-8aa0-7f90a63a85f1@iopsys.eu>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:30:53 +0300
From: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@...sys.eu>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>, Ray Liu <ray.liu@...oha.com>,
 Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Matthias Brugger
 <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
 AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
 Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
 Andreas Gnau <andreas.gnau@...sys.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 02/16] spi: airoha: remove unnecessary restriction
 length


On 10/16/25 18:07, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 04:39:19PM +0300, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:
>
>> Could you give me an advice?
>> This patch series consist of:
>> 1) bug fixes (patches 1, 3, 5, 6, 13)
> I note that 13 isn't tagged as a fix.

In most cases this driver will be called from spinand code. Spinand code
provides the same logic, thus patch 13 will do nothing. But if airoha
spi will be called outside of spinand code -- patch 13 becomes necessary.
  

>
>> 2) removing of boot related dirty hack, absolutely necessary for older
>> kernels (patch 12 and preparation patches 9-11)
>> 3) improvements (patches: 2, 8)
>> 4) cleanups (patches: 4, 7)
>> 5) support of en7523 SoC (patches: 14-16)
> Fixes, cleanups, general improvements, the new device support.
Thanks