On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 05:29:26PM -0500, Anirudh Srinivasan wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 04:14:42PM -0500, Anirudh Srinivasan wrote:
> > > Hello Tom,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 3:57 PM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 02:00:35PM -0500, Anirudh Srinivasan via U-Boot 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The designware spi driver doesn't support dual/quad/octal modes, but
> > > > > the driver still tries using these modes when it sees a capable flash
> > > > > chip in the devicetree. Add a supports_op function to this driver to
> > > > > prevent this from happening and force single lane operation.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Anirudh Srinivasan <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > This introduces a failure to build:
> > > > +(socfpga_secu1) arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/spi/designware_spi.o: in 
> > > > function `dw_spi_supports_op':
> > > > +(socfpga_secu1) 
> > > > drivers/spi/designware_spi.c:707:(.text.dw_spi_supports_op+0x18): 
> > > > undefined reference to `spi_mem_default_supports_op'
> > > > +(socfpga_secu1) make[1]: *** [Makefile:2131: u-boot] Error 1
> > > > +(socfpga_secu1) make: *** [Makefile:189: __sub-make] Error 2
> > >
> > > Thanks for catching this. I think the solution would be for
> > > DESIGNWARE_SPI to select SPI_MEM. Other spi drivers that call this
> > > function also do this (nxp_xspi, spi-aspeed-smc, cadence_qspi....).
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/spi/Kconfig b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
> > > index cfbedd64c4c..a5623a2cec6 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/spi/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
> > > @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ config DAVINCI_SPI
> > >
> > >  config DESIGNWARE_SPI
> > >         bool "Designware SPI driver"
> > > +       select SPI_MEM
> > >         help
> > >           Enable the Designware SPI driver. This driver can be used to
> > >           access the SPI NOR flash on platforms embedding this Designware
> > >
> > >
> > > I will send a v2 with this fixed.
> >
> > Yes, and please have that in its own patch as a bugfix. Thanks!
> 
> Is a bugfix required here? The designware spi driver currently doesn't
> rely on any of the symbols provided by CONFIG_SPI_MEM. So it doesn't
> need to select SPI_MEM currently, right? It's needed only because my
> patch introduces a dependency on that symbol (so it should be selected
> in my patch only).
> 
> If there is something else I'm missing, please let me know.

Ah, I misunderstood your report, nevermind.

-- 
Tom

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