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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] spi: do not fail if the CS line is not connected
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:36:22PM +0900, Andi Shyti wrote:

> > > In this case do not fail and defer to the SPI device drivers the
> > > responsibility to check whether the num-cs is '0'.

> > A SPI controller always has one chip seelct, it may not be controllable
> > but it's at least logically present.

> This is true, but there are cases where the CS is not connected
> and this case needs to be treated separately to allow the device
> to work.

In what way? It is just as easy for a device with no physical chip
select to have a logical chip select of 0 that it does nothing with as
it is for that device to handle any other number.

> This is the case of:

> ./drivers/spi/spi-mpc52xx-psc.c:391: master->num_chipselect = 255;
> ./drivers/spi/spi-oc-tiny.c:256: master->num_chipselect = 255;

> ./drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c:64: .num_chipselect = -1,
> ./drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c:436: master->num_chipselect = -1;

These need fixing.
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