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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>,
	spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, rob@landley.net,
	rob.herring@calxeda.com, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: devicetree: add support for loopback mode
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:14:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121216211415.0DE793E0BDD@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121215145546.GA15606@arwen.pp.htv.fi>

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:55:46 +0200, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:32:24AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:46:00 +0200, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> wrote:
> > > there are a few spi master drivers which make
> > > use of that flag but there is no way to pass it
> > > through devicetree.
> > > 
> > > This patch just creates a way to pass SPI_LOOP
> > > via devicetree.
> > 
> > I don't understand how this would be useful since loopback mode is
> > really just a test feature. Is there any reason to do loopback for
> > something other than test?
> > 
> > I think it would be better to add a sysfs or debugfs property to
> > manipulate the SPI_LOOP flag from userspace. What do you think?
> 
> might be nicer in the long run, indeed. Want me to look into it, or do
> you wanna do it yourself ?

Yes, please look into it. After all, you're the one who needs the feature/  :-)

g.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-16 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-12  8:45 [PATCH 1/2] spi: omap2: disable DMA requests before complete() Felipe Balbi
     [not found] ` <1355301960-21523-1-git-send-email-balbi-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-12  8:46   ` [PATCH 2/2] spi: devicetree: add support for loopback mode Felipe Balbi
2012-12-15  0:32     ` Grant Likely
2012-12-15 14:55       ` Felipe Balbi
2012-12-16 21:14         ` Grant Likely [this message]
2012-12-15  0:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] spi: omap2: disable DMA requests before complete() Grant Likely

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