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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] spi_bitbang: Add more lowlevel function documentation
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:06:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902191206.17734.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)

This adds more documentation of the lowlevel API to avoid future bugs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>

---

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/spi/spi_bitbang.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/spi/spi_bitbang.h	2009-02-19 11:59:23.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/spi/spi_bitbang.h	2009-02-19 12:04:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ extern int spi_bitbang_stop(struct spi_b
  *  int getmiso(struct spi_device *);
  *  void spidelay(unsigned);
  *
+ * setsck()'s is_on parameter is a zero/nonzero boolean.
+ *
+ * setmosi()'s is_on parameter is a zero/nonzero boolean.
+ *
+ * getmiso() is required to return 0 or 1 only. Any other value is invalid
+ * and will result in improper operation.
+ *
  * A non-inlined routine would call bitbang_txrx_*() routines.  The
  * main loop could easily compile down to a handful of instructions,
  * especially if the delay is a NOP (to run at peak speed).

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-19 11:06 Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-02-19 19:34 ` [PATCH] spi_bitbang: Add more lowlevel function documentation David Brownell

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