| From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 002/219] spi/bcm63xx: make spi subsystem aware of message size limits | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2018 20:07:46 +0000 |
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:23:10AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: >On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 10:27:56PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote: >> From: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com> >> >> [ Upstream commit 0135c03df914f0481c61f097c78d37cece84f330 ] > >Why are there so many more patches for v4.9 than for more recent >kernels?
The v4.11..v4.14 range got processed, and all those commits are now being pushed into 4.9 and older.
>> The bcm63xx SPI controller does not allow manual control of the CS >> lines and will toggle it automatically before and after sending data, >> so we are limited to messages that fit in the FIFO buffer. Since the CS >> lines aren't available as GPIOs either, we will need to make slave >> drivers aware of this limitation so they can handle them accordingly. > >This seems really aggressive for stable...
Why so?
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Thanks, Sasha
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