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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Discussions about the Letux Kernel 
	<letux-kernel@openphoenux.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] SPI broken for SPI based panel drivers
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 21:57:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201205205744.GD8578@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGngYiXgc_m2A7Wihxuhzm-u4qH-JZgxHjke653zvyT45jMU7Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon 2020-11-30 15:13:02, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Hi Nikolaus, thank you for reaching out !
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:06 PM H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:
> >
> > But reverting your patch brings back the display. So it appears as if it does not
> > fix a breakage, rather breaks a previously working setup.
> 
> The patch in question fixes an important breakage: before the patch, literally
> hundreds of SPI drivers no longer worked - only if the SPI bus master
> driver was using gpio descriptors.
> 
> We knew that there was a chance that our fix would break something else.
> But hopefully "it fixes more than it breaks"

If the patch causes regression it will ultimately need to be
reverted... no matter how much it fixes.

									Pavel
-- 
http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-05 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 19:03 [BUG] SPI broken for SPI based panel drivers H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-11-30 20:13 ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-11-30 20:22   ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01  8:59   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 12:16     ` Mark Brown
2020-12-01 14:05       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 14:20         ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-01 14:34           ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 14:35           ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 15:52             ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 16:46               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:10             ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 16:39               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:53                 ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 17:10                   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 18:43                     ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-02 12:19                       ` Mark Brown
2020-12-04 10:08                       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-04 13:46                         ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-04 16:49                           ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-04 19:19                             ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-04 21:31                               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-05  0:25                             ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-05  7:04                               ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-09  8:04                                 ` Andreas Kemnade
2020-12-09  8:40                                   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-09  8:38                                 ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-09  8:45                                   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 22:51                     ` Linus Walleij
2020-12-01 16:44               ` [Letux-kernel] " Andreas Kemnade
2020-12-01 16:51                 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:52                 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 16:55                 ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 16:20           ` Mark Brown
2020-12-01 16:41             ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 17:11               ` Mark Brown
2020-12-01 12:41     ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 13:32       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-12-01 14:08         ` Sven Van Asbroeck
2020-12-01 15:33           ` Mark Brown
2020-12-05 20:57   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2020-12-07 13:43     ` Mark Brown

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