Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:04:52 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: cadence-quadspi: Disable Auto-HW polling |
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:06:29AM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote: > On 15/07/21 05:41PM, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 09:57:51PM +0530, Apurva Nandan wrote:
> But then the problem is how to tell the caller whether the poll actually > happened or not. The other option I see is:
> ret = spi_mem_set_autopoll_op(mem, poll_op, mask, match, ...); > spi_mem_exec_op(mem, op); > > if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) > poll_status();
> When spi_mem_set_autopoll_op() is called, the controller driver can > check if it can autopoll with this op. It can configure its autopoll > feature based on this, and can provide feedback to the caller about > whether they will then have to poll themselves, or it has already been > done for them.
I was more thinking about just having polling be a separate operation entirely, but you're right that a controller might integrate polling with the actual operation so that won't do and we need something more like you suggest.
> I like the latter option more.
Yes.
> I think the question we need to answer first is whether doing all this > is worth the hassle. Are there enough controllers with this auto polling > feature to make it worth the bother?
If we build it they will come! :P But yes, that's definitely a concern. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |