Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:55:28 +0200 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7] spi: sun4i: Allow transfers larger than FIFO size |
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:00:30AM -0700, Alexandru Gagniuc wrote: > This is the seventh attempt to get this patch in. I was prompted to look > into this again as someone recently remarked: > > " cool, to bad spi does not work properly on allwinner..." > > Two and a half years ago, we were told this will all be handled with DMA. > A year or so ago, we were told this will all be handled with DMA. > A week or so ago, we were told this will all be handled with DMA. > > See the pattern? > When DMA finally takes over, this fallback path is not mutually exclusive.
I definitely agree, and we had this patch in the CHIP kernel for quite some time, working like a charm.
I was planning to respin it in the next few days, glad to see you took care of it :)
Mark, any comments on this? For the record, it already has my Acked-by.
Thanks, Maxime
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