Hello,

On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:00 PM Grant Likely wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Marek Szyprowski
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:36 PM Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >
> >> There are some boards that do not strictly follow SPI standard and use
> >> only 3 wires (SCLK, MOSI or MISO, SS) for connecting some simple
> auxiliary
> >> chips and controls them with GPIO based 'spi controller'. In this
> >> configuration the MISO or MOSI line is missing (it is not required if
> the
> >> chip does not transfer any data back to host or host only reads data
> from
> >> chip).
> >>
> >> This patch adds support for such non-standard configuration in GPIO-
> based
> >> SPI controller. It has been tested in configuration without MISO pin.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
> >
> > Is there any progress on merging this patch? It hangs on the patchwork
> for
> > 2 months still marked as 'new'. I'm a bit confused. The idea behind the
> patch
> > was already accepted (see commit 568d0697f42771425ae9f1e9a3db769fef7e10b6)
> > but then the patch is still waiting... My fault I didn't asked for it on
> the
> > beginning of the merge window.
> 
> I'm not convinced this is the best approach.  I did look at it, but
> decided not to merge it yet.  It adds code to the hottest path in the
> spi-gpio driver (not that this driver will ever be fast, but on
> bit-banged gpio, every instruction counts).

If this is really a problem I can remove the 'if (SPI_{MOSI,MISO}_GPIO !=
SPI_GPIO_NO_{MOSI,MISO})' checks. If we assume that the upper level of the
spi framework works correctly, these functions shouldn't be called if
the pin is set to NO_GPIO (the master device has SPI_MASTER_NO_{TX,RX} flags
set).

> I was delayed it getting on the SPI backlog this merge cycle due to
> travel, so I've deferred making a decision on this patch.  I'll be
> taking another look in the next few weeks and I'll let you know
> whether or not I'll pick it up for 2.6.36

Ok.

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center


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