On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 06:03:27PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> In the TX_ONLY transfer, the SPI controller also receives data
> simultaneously and saves them in the rx register. After the TX_ONLY
> transfer, the rx register will hold the random data received during
> the last tx transaction.
> 
> If the direct following transfer is RX_ONLY, this random data has the
> possibility to affect this transfer like this:
>   When the SPI controller is changed from TX_ONLY to RX_ONLY,
>   the random data makes the rx register full immediately and
>   triggers a dummy write automatically(in SPI RX_ONLY transfers,
>   we need a dummy write to trigger the first transaction).
> 
>   So the first data received in the RX_ONLY transfer will be that
>   random data instead of something meaningful.
> 
> We can avoid this by inserting a Disable/Re-enable toggle of the
> channel after the TX_ONLY transfer, since it purges the rx register.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

g.

> ---
> Hi Grant,
> 
> The touchpanel driver can't work correctly on the omap3evm platform,
> This is due to a omap2_mcspi driver issue, now fix it.
> 
>  drivers/spi/omap2_mcspi.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/omap2_mcspi.c b/drivers/spi/omap2_mcspi.c
> index b3a94ca..43fab41 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/omap2_mcspi.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/omap2_mcspi.c
> @@ -644,6 +644,12 @@ omap2_mcspi_txrx_pio(struct spi_device *spi, struct 
> spi_transfer *xfer)
>               } else if (mcspi_wait_for_reg_bit(chstat_reg,
>                               OMAP2_MCSPI_CHSTAT_EOT) < 0)
>                       dev_err(&spi->dev, "EOT timed out\n");
> +
> +             /* disable chan to purge rx datas received in TX_ONLY transfer,
> +              * otherwise these rx datas will affect the direct following
> +              * RX_ONLY transfer.
> +              */
> +             omap2_mcspi_set_enable(spi, 0);
>       }
>  out:
>       omap2_mcspi_set_enable(spi, 1);
> -- 
> 1.5.6.5
> 
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