From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qca_spi: Introduce write register verification Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20180924.122629.891745867586399526.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1537788010-6766-1-git-send-email-stefan.wahren@i2se.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.heimpold@i2se.com To: stefan.wahren@i2se.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1537788010-6766-1-git-send-email-stefan.wahren@i2se.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Stefan Wahren Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:20:10 +0200 > The SPI protocol for the QCA7000 doesn't have any fault detection. > In order to increase the drivers reliability in noisy environments, > we could implement a write verification inspired by the enc28j60. > This should avoid situations were the driver wrongly assumes the > receive interrupt is enabled and miss all incoming packets. > > This function is disabled per default and can be controlled via module > parameter wr_verify. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold > Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren Applied.