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author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2009-05-04 18:05:23 +0400 |
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committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2009-05-04 18:05:23 +0400 |
commit | 8560b9321f9050968f393ce1ec67e47c1a0bd5cf (patch) | |
tree | 658ebb20e4fd5dee840f27103b59da367ff473b1 /Documentation/spi/spi-summary | |
parent | 72e31981a4e91f84c5b5e8994f5d25b1cf22b6cf (diff) | |
parent | 6574612fbb34c63117581e68f2231ddce027e41e (diff) | |
download | linux-8560b9321f9050968f393ce1ec67e47c1a0bd5cf.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into topic/asoc
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diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary index 0f5122eb282b..4a02d2508bc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary @@ -511,10 +511,16 @@ SPI MASTER METHODS This sets up the device clock rate, SPI mode, and word sizes. Drivers may change the defaults provided by board_info, and then call spi_setup(spi) to invoke this routine. It may sleep. + Unless each SPI slave has its own configuration registers, don't change them right away ... otherwise drivers could corrupt I/O that's in progress for other SPI devices. + ** BUG ALERT: for some reason the first version of + ** many spi_master drivers seems to get this wrong. + ** When you code setup(), ASSUME that the controller + ** is actively processing transfers for another device. + master->transfer(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message) This must not sleep. Its responsibility is arrange that the transfer happens and its complete() callback is issued. The two |