Zitat von Erwin Authried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Am Donnerstag, den 21.08.2008, 10:46 +0200 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I contact you because you are mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file of
>> linux-2.6.26 for the mmc_spi drive and SPI subsystem.
>>
>> I want to share the bus with other SPI devices. The drivers mentions
>> pending updates that would allow that.
>> Are those available somewhere?
>>
>> If not, the changes seem to fairly trivial: change SPI controller
>> drivers to allow adding a spi_transfer to an spi_message during the
>> complete() callback or add another callback that can do this.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have done this in a slightly different, rather simple way. I have
> added a new "transfer_end" callback function pointer to the spi_transfer
> structure. This function can have three return values:
>
> <0 ... stop spi message after the transfer
> 0  ... continue with next transfer
> 1  ... repeat current transfer
>
> If the transfer_end callback is not required, the function pointer must
> be set to NULL.
>
> I have modified the bitbang driver for this new functionality. In
> addition, the mmc_spi driver has been changed to make use of the
> callback function. It is necessary to pack all transfers that must be
> done without being interrupted into a single message. I have done a lot
> of testing with a SD card on a shared bus with a lot of other activity,
> and I couldn't see any problems.

I'd imagine something like this but instead of the return code, let it  
fill/clear spi_message::transfers as it likes during this callback and  
let the caller check the that after the callback (list_empty()).

Nice to know that there are no further pitfalls :)

HS



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