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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-08 10:50:00 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-08 10:50:00 +0200 |
commit | f066a155334642b8a206eec625b1925d88c48aeb (patch) | |
tree | cb12975e60b70d1dae3b7397bab955de78a4d01e /Documentation/spi/spi-summary | |
parent | e7c064889606aab3569669078c69b87b2c527e72 (diff) | |
parent | 33df4db04a79660150e1948e3296eeb451ac121b (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/xen
Conflicts:
arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
Merge reason: x86/xen was on a .29 base still, move it to a fresher
branch and pick up Xen fixes as well, plus resolve
conflicts
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary index 0f5122eb282b..4a02d2508bc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary @@ -511,10 +511,16 @@ SPI MASTER METHODS This sets up the device clock rate, SPI mode, and word sizes. Drivers may change the defaults provided by board_info, and then call spi_setup(spi) to invoke this routine. It may sleep. + Unless each SPI slave has its own configuration registers, don't change them right away ... otherwise drivers could corrupt I/O that's in progress for other SPI devices. + ** BUG ALERT: for some reason the first version of + ** many spi_master drivers seems to get this wrong. + ** When you code setup(), ASSUME that the controller + ** is actively processing transfers for another device. + master->transfer(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message) This must not sleep. Its responsibility is arrange that the transfer happens and its complete() callback is issued. The two |