Re: [PATCH V3 4/5] spi: s3c64xx: Added provision for dedicated cs pin

[Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

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On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:21:03PM +0530, Girish KS wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Mark Brown

> > It's also a bit odd that we end up checking cs_gpio and then using line
> > in the code, it'd be more idiomatic if cs_gpio were the GPIO number.

> In the original driver it was assumed that the cs line is always a gpio pin.
> But the current controller that i am working on has no gpio pin for cs
> selection.
> All the lines to the device are internally connected. There is no
> option to select
> the cs signal. So cs-gpio property parsing has to skipped for this
> controller, that means
> cs_gpio cannot be a GPIO number. If it has to be a number then it has
> to be < 0 to say
> it is not gpio. Any >= 0 number implies it is a valid gpio (in reality
> for this controller it is not.)

Two options here, one is to just assume nobody will use GPIO 0 and the
other is to set the number appopriately during probe so that only probe
needs to worry about the issue.

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