| Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2018 10:23:10 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 002/219] spi/bcm63xx: make spi subsystem aware of message size limits |
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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 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... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |