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From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: McSPI questions pertaining to GPIO chip select support
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:25:43 -0500
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Excerpts from Bill Gatliff's message of Wed Jan 27 23:15:05 -0500 2010:
> Ben Gamari wrote:
> > As I am writing this, it now occurs to me that perhaps the chip doesn't
> > start SPI_CLK until it has data to send.
> 
> ... or receive.  This is indeed the case.
> 
Thanks for your prompt reply. Hopefully you'll see a patch from me about
this in the next few days. I'm assuming this functionality would be
welcome in mainline?

- Ben