Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:54:20 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] spi: Limit the spi device max speed to controller's max speed |
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On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 10:46:36PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 07:35:14PM +0200, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> > Make sure the max_speed_hz of spi_device does not override > > the max_speed_hz of controller.
> I have doubts that's right thing to do. It seems better to let > the controller driver to handle the speed clamping itself, while > to leave the SPI client device max_speed_hz field describing the > device speed capability. Moreover the SPI-transfers passed to the > controller will have a SPI-bus speed fixed in accordance with the > controller and client device capabilities anyway. > See the __spi_validate() method for details: > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10-rc7/source/drivers/spi/spi.c#L3570
Right, in general we aim to do this sort of fixup on the transfers and messages rather than the devices, I guess we might be missing validation in some of the flash acceleration paths or was this an issue seen through inspection? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |