Re: [PATCH v3] Add SPI over GPIO driver

From: Magnus Damm
Date: Fri Oct 17 2008 - 05:52:45 EST


[removed closed openwrt-devel list]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2008 05:14:26 Magnus Damm wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > This adds a driver that lets you drive an SPI bus over
>> > generic GPIO pins.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Very useful. Fits my shiny new GPIO implementation for SuperH like a glove.
>>
>> Michael, as you know, I have some SuperH board code that makes use of
>> this driver. Are there any outstanding issues with this driver that I
>> can help resolving?
>
> bool cs_activelow should probably be removed from struct spi_gpio_platform_data.
>
> I think cs always is activelow, so we can simply hardcode this in spi_gpio_chipselect()

Really? There _must_ be chips out there that want active high CS!
I'd rather keep the activelow option or maybe turn in into activehigh instead.

> If you want to do this, please feel free to do so.
> I currently don't have the time for this.
> The rest of the driver is fine with me.

Ok, thank you.

David or Andrew, any change of getting this merged as-is somehow? Thanks!

/ magnus
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