Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] spi/pl022: Add chip select handling via GPIO

From: Roland Stigge
Date: Sun Sep 02 2012 - 16:04:11 EST


Hi Shiraz,

On 01/09/12 13:14, shiraz hashim wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Roland Stigge <stigge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> @@ -2016,6 +2030,8 @@ pl022_probe(struct amba_device *adev, co
>> pl022->master_info = platform_info;
>> pl022->adev = adev;
>> pl022->vendor = id->data;
>> + /* Point chipselects to allocated memory beyond the main struct */
>> + pl022->chipselects = (int *) pl022 + sizeof(struct pl022);
>
> This is going beyond memory allocated for chipselects
> as it adds 4 * sizeof(struct pl022) bytes to pl022.
>
> pl022->chipselects = (int *) &pl022[1];

Correct. Thanks for the heads up!

Funnily, my previous proposal way actually like you just proposed, but
we took the other one since it looked "better". ;-)

I'll provide an incremental bugfix patch since Mark already has the
commit in his misc.git tree.

Thanks again,

Roland
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