Re: [PATCH 5/6] spi: bcm2835: add polling mode for transfers below 30us

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On 03/31/2015 12:00 AM, Martin Sperl wrote:

On 31.03.2015, at 05:28, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+	/* check if we shall run in polling mode */
+	xfer_time_us = tfr->len * 9 * 1000000 / spi_used_hz;

Why 9 not 8; presumably thats bits per byte, and IIRC SPI doesn't have
anything like I2C's ack bit per byte?

Well - the bcm2835 make a 1 cycle wait after each byte transferred.
Hence 9 bit actual length we need to account for.

How odd. A comment to that effect might be useful for future readers.

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