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Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:51:52 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: fsi: Remove multiple sequenced ops for restricted
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:46:50AM -0500, Eddie James wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 13:50 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 05:05:16PM -0500, Eddie James wrote:

> > > Updated restricted chips have trouble processing multiple sequenced
> > > operations. So remove the capability to sequence multiple
> > > operations and
> > > reduce the maximum transfer size to 8 bytes.

> > That's a very small limit, it would be nice to be able to identify
> > devices that can use the larger limit so they don't suffer
> > needlessly.

> Yes, this is only for the "restricted" controllers which are marked by
> a different compatible string. I guess the commit message isn't
> perfectly clear.

The commit message reads like there's a new version of the restricted
controllers that have even more limits.

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