Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: bcm-mspi: Add support for Broadcom MSPI driver.

[Jonathan Richardson <jonathar@broadcom.com>]

On 15-05-14 12:08 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:19:01AM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
>> On 15-05-14 03:31 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Chip vendors often say this sort of thing and then get surprised by what
>>> their users choose to do, and even if it only ever gets used with flash
>>> all it would take is some new flash command which can use full duplex
>>> for something.  Please write the code so it at least tries to handle
>>> full duplex operation, if you can't test it fully that's not the end of
>>> the world.  It doesn't look like it should be particularly difficult.
> 
>> Yes, there is always room for improvements in code.  In this case - it
>> really is not worth our time to add code we can't test.  We try to deliver
>> code that we can test and actually works.  Yes, if anyone needs to use the
> 
> While I try to not apply code that has obvious problems with silent data
> corruption in it which is what we have just now.
> 
>> mspi for full duplex operation code can be added in the future - it is
>> software.  This block has gone through many generations of our SoCs and has
>> only been used for this purpose - the bootROM boots from this SPI only.  It
>> is dedicated for this purpose.
> 
> All it takes is one hardware engineer who sees a SPI controller and a
> GPIO they can use for chip select; I wouldn't be so sure that nobody
> ever fixed this up locally (or happened to use a device that only needed
> single duplex).
> 

Hi Mark. Would it help if we just set the flags to half duplex using
SPI_MASTER_HALF_DUPLEX when we register the master?