[PATCH -mm v3][POWERPC] mpc8xxx : allow SPI without cs.

Anton Vorontsov avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Fri Jun 19 23:45:58 EST 2009


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:26:08AM +0200, Rini van Zetten wrote:
> This patch adds the possibility to have a spi device without a cs.
>
> For example, the dts file should look something like this:
>
> spi-controller {
>        gpios = <&pio1 1 0      /* cs0 */
>                 0              /* cs1, no GPIO */
>                 &pio2 2 0>;    /* cs2 */
>
> Signed-off-by: Rini van Zetten <rini at arvoo.nl>
> ---
> Changes :
> 	patch against 2.6.30-rc8-mm1
> 	style updates
> 	compiler warning fix
> comment :
> 	This feature is needed on our home made board to program an onboard fpga.
> 	The fpga needs some special pin toggling to put it in programming mode.
> 	That's why we want to skip the usual gpio cs and do the pin toggling
> 	in our driver

Cool, thanks for the explanation. You may want to put it
into the commit message.

[...]
> +			ret = gpio_direction_output(pinfo->gpios[i],
> +					pinfo->alow_flags[i]);
> +			if (ret) {
> +				dev_err(dev, "can't set output direction for"
> +							"gpio #%d: %d\n",
> +							i, ret);

There is no space between 'for' and 'gpio' words.
(also the whole dev_err() may fit into two lines, no need to
split it into three lines).

Otherwise looks great. On the next resend feel free to add my
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>

Thanks,

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