Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel: Fix crash when using more than 4 gpio CS

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Thu Sep 19 2019 - 13:23:58 EST


On 19/09/2019 17:03:15+0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 05:38:47PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>
> > With this patch, when using a gpio CS, the hardware CS0 is always
> > used. Thanks to this, there is no more limitation for the number of
> > gpio CS we can use.
>
> This is going to break any system where we use both a GPIO chip select
> and chip select 0. Ideally we'd try to figure out an unused chip select
> to use here...

The point is that this use case is already broken and this patch fixes
the crash and is easily backportable.

Fixing the CS + gpio CS should probably be done in a separate patch.

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