Re: [spi-devel-general] [PATCH v2] spi: Add support for the OpenCores SPI controller.

[Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>]

* Thierry Reding wrote:
> This patch adds a platform device driver that supports the OpenCores SPI
> controller.
> 
> The driver expects two resources: an IORESOURCE_MEM resource defining the
> core's memory-mapped registers and an IORESOURCE_IRQ for the associated
> interrupt. It also requires a clock, "spi-master-clk", used to compute the
> clock divider.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
[snip]

This second version is pretty much a rewrite. Some notes about the most
important changes:

  * uses per-chip states to allow more slaves to use the controller
    concurrently
  * rejects invalid device configurations during setup
  * rejects invalid per-message and per-transfer options
  * queues messages so that they can be processed one after another
      - this also provides for a way to handle power-management
  * omits the spioc.h (and with it the platform data structure):
      - uses the platform_device.id for the bus number
      - always uses 8 chipselects because that's the maximum that the core
        supports

I couldn't really find a way to implement per-transfer overrides for the
word size because the controller simply has no concept of word sizes. Is it
in such cases still necessary to hardwire the word size to 8 bits?

Thierry