On 10/08/10 21:12, David Brownell wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 12:29 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:22:28PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > >>> Is it ever wrong to over specify elements of a transfer? > > I wouldn't say that's even possible. > >>> We have a driver that (for historical reasons) specifies >>> that a particular transfer is 8 bit. >>> .bits_per_word = 8, >>> >>> This causes issues with the atmel spi driver which sees that >>> the value is specified and hence fails the transfer. > > > Specifying 8 there means the same as specifying zero. Cool, I'll post a patch (probably Monday now) to at least ensure the atmel driver lets transfers through if we aren't trying to change bits_per_word. Thanks for getting back to us. Jonathan > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
