Subject: [PATCH 1/6] spi-imx: add CSPI and eCSPI support for i.MX51 MCU

From: [email-masked] (Baruch Siach)
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:29:09 +0300

Hi Lothar,

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:11:56PM +0200, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> > > -	if (cpu_is_mx25() || cpu_is_mx31() || cpu_is_mx35()) {
> > > +	/* i.MX51 has two eCSPI and one CSPI controllers, eCSPI controllers are
> > > +	 * not compatible with existing SPI controllers on other i.MX platforms,
> > > +	 * while CSPI controller is 100% compatible with the one on the i.MX35.
> > > +	 * We set the platform device id to 2 for this CSPI at i.MX51 board init
> > > +	 * level to distinguish it from two eCSPI controllers.
> > > +	 */
> > This comment is missing in Sascha's driver.  I like it.
> > BTW, I'd like to make use of platform ids in this driver.  This would
> > make this ugly "on imx51 id2 is a cspi" distinction unnecessary.
> > 
> > > +	if (cpu_is_mx25() || cpu_is_mx31() || cpu_is_mx35() ||
> > > +	    (cpu_is_mx51() && (pdev->id == 2))) {
> I'd prefer a flag in the platform_data that tells the driver to act as
> an eCSPI driver. This way the information about eCSPI or not would be
> where it belongs (in the arch specific code).

But this also increases the size of driver code, since the compiler can 
resolve cpu_is_* at compile time, and drop the dead code. Maybe an is_ecspi 
macro will make the above code clearer.

baruch

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