Re: [PATCH] mfd: motorola-cpcap: Do not hardcode SPI mode flags

Tony Lindgren
2020-01-07T18:24:05Z

* Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> [200107 09:58]:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 6:04 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
>
> > * Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> [700101 00:00]:
> > > The current use of mode flags to us SPI_MODE_0 and
> > > SPI_CS_HIGH is fragile: it overwrites anything already
> > > assigned by the SPI core. Change it thusly:
> > >
> > > - Just |= the SPI_MODE_0 so we keep other flags
> > > - Assign ^= SPI_CS_HIGH since we might be active high
> > > already, and that is usually the case with GPIOs used
> > > for chip select, even if they are in practice active low.
> > >
> > > Add a comment clarifying why ^= SPI_CS_HIGH is the right
> > > choice here.
> >
> > Looks like this breaks booting for droid4 with a cpcap
> > PMIC, probably as regulators won't work. There's no GPIO
> > controller involved in this case for the chip select, the
> > pins are directly controlled by the spi-omap2-mcspi.c
> > driver.
> >
> > From the pin muxing setup we see there's a pull-down on
> > mcspi1_cs0 pin meaning it's active high:
> >
> > /* 0x4a100138 mcspi1_cs0.mcspi1_cs0 ae23 */
> > OMAP4_IOPAD(0x138, PIN_INPUT_PULLDOWN | MUX_MODE0)
> >
> > My guess a similar issue is with similar patches for
> > all non-gpio spi controllers?
> >
> > Let me know if you want me to test some other changes,
> > or if this patch depends on some other changes.
>
> So this must mean that something else is setting SPI_CS_HIGH
> for this driver, such as the device tree, right?

Hmm yes we have "spi-cs-high" property set in the dts.

But looking at drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c, it also
provides an option to use a GPIO for chip select in
omap2_mcspi_setup(). That does not seem to be used though
based on a quick grep though.

> And the |= SPI_CS_HIGH assignment in the driver is just
> surplus and we should just delete this code instead.
>
> Would that be right?

Sorry I don't know, maybe. If you have some test patch to
try I can easily test.

Regards,

Tony