Re: [PATCH] ARM: at91: at91sam9x5: sets NPCS0 (PA14) back to GPIO

Alexandre Belloni
2014-07-25T08:54:43Z

On 25/07/2014 at 10:37:31 +0200, Jiří Prchal wrote :
>
>
> Dne 25.7.2014 v 10:30 Alexandre Belloni napsal(a):
> >Hi,
> >
> >On 25/07/2014 at 08:14:40 +0200, Jiří Prchal wrote :
> >>I'm using custom board. My spi node:
> >> spi0: spi@f0000000 {
> >
> >You should override the pinctrl here as you are using gpios for the cs.
> > pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_spi0_custom>;
> >
> >> status = "okay";
> >> cs-gpios = <&pioA 23 0
> >> &pioA 22 0
> >> &pioC 29 0
> >> &pioA 14 0>;
> >>
> >
> > pinctrl@fffff400 {
> > spi0 {
> > pinctrl_spi0_custom: spi0-custom {
> > atmel,pins =
> > <AT91_PIOA 23 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO AT91_PINCTRL_NONE>,
> > <AT91_PIOA 22 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO AT91_PINCTRL_NONE>,
> > <AT91_PIOC 29 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO AT91_PINCTRL_NONE>,
> > <AT91_PIOA 14 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO AT91_PINCTRL_NONE>;
> > };
> > };
> > };
> >
> Of course, it's the way, but in all other drivers, for example LEDS,
> it's not needed. And in other way, if I will not use PA14 at all,
> the pin will goes down every spi transfer.

You must not assumed that the pins are muxed to their default state
which is gpio and you should set the pinctrl accordingly for each
device.

If you don't use PA14 at all, then you don't really care about its
state...

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering