Re: [PATCH v11 03/10] spi: Add multi-cs memories support in SPI core

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 1/20/24 17:04, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 09:05:43AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, the problem is due to
> 
>> +#define SPI_CS_CNT_MAX 4
> 
>> in the offending patch, but apeed2400 FMC supports up to 5 SPI chip selects.
>>
>>   static const struct aspeed_spi_data ast2400_fmc_data = {
>>          .max_cs        = 5,
>> 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>          .hastype       = true,
> 
>> Limiting .max_cs to 4 or increasing SPI_CS_CNT_MAX to 5 fixes the problem,
>> though of course I don't know if increasing SPI_CS_CNT_MAX has other side
>> effects.
> 
> Yeah, I was coming to a similar conclusion myself - the limit is just
> too low.  I can't see any problem with increasing it.

It would cost a bit of memory and somewhat affect performance sine many
of the newly introduced loops are bound by SPI_CS_CNT_MAX and not by
num_chipselect.

It also might make sense to document the new limit somewhere. Prior
to this commit it was not limited at all.
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-davinci.txt lists 5 chip
selects in its example for the use of cs-gpios.
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-controller.yaml also does not
list a limit.

Thanks,
Guenter