Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030298AbVLVVmU (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:42:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030307AbVLVVmT (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:42:19 -0500 Received: from rtsoft3.corbina.net ([85.21.88.6]:42159 "EHLO buildserver.ru.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030298AbVLVVmT (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:42:19 -0500 Message-ID: <43AB1DB7.3080505@ru.mvista.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:42:15 +0300 From: Vitaly Wool User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Brownell CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, spi-devel-general@sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6-git] SPI: add set_clock() to bitbang References: <20051222180449.4335a8e6.vwool@ru.mvista.com> <200512220840.34152.david-b@pacbell.net> <43AB1958.1070407@ru.mvista.com> <200512221337.39305.david-b@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200512221337.39305.david-b@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1176 Lines: 34 David Brownell wrote: >>>This is actually not needed. Clocks are set through the setup() method >>> >>> >>... >> >>Where is it supposed to call setup? I guess it's anyway gonna be >>per-transfer, right? >>Or am I missing something? >> >> > >When the device is created, the core calls setup() to get things like >chipselect polarity sorted out and put into the inactive state. That >matches the board-specific defaults associated with that device, which >would be a function of voltage, routing, and more. > >And from then on, it'd be rare to ever call setup() again ... though >drivers certainly could do that between spi_message interactions with >a given device. > > No, suppose there're two devices behind the same SPI bus that have different clock constraints. As active SPI device change may well happen when each new message is processed, we'll need to set up clocks again for each message. Right? Vitaly - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/