From 6e538aaf50ae782a890cbc02c27950448d8193e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Brownell Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:24:49 -0700 Subject: spi: documentation: emphasise spi_master.setup() semantics This is a doc-only patch which I hope will reduce the number of spi_master controller driver patches starting out with a common implementation bug. (As in: almost every spi_master driver I see starts out with its version of this bug. Sigh.) It just re-emphasizes that the setup() method may be called for one device while a transfer is active on another ... which means that most driver implementations shouldn't touch any registers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3