netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: qca_spi: Introduce write register verification

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Message-Id: <20180924.122629.891745867586399526.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:26:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stefan.wahren@...e.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        michael.heimpold@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qca_spi: Introduce write register verification

From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:20:10 +0200

> The SPI protocol for the QCA7000 doesn't have any fault detection.
> In order to increase the drivers reliability in noisy environments,
> we could implement a write verification inspired by the enc28j60.
> This should avoid situations were the driver wrongly assumes the
> receive interrupt is enabled and miss all incoming packets.
> 
> This function is disabled per default and can be controlled via module
> parameter wr_verify.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com>

Applied.