Re: [PATCH] spi: rb4xx: Fix set_cs logic.

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 01:01:22PM +0200, Bert Vermeulen wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 11:46 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> No, the enable parameter *should* refer to chip select assertion (see
> >> how we handle GPIO chip selects).  However it's possible that this
> >> device has an inverted chip select and should be registered with the
> >> SPI_CS_HIGH flag?

> > It's logic level:

> >  * @set_cs: set the logic level of the chip select line.  May be called
> >  *          from interrupt context.

> Right It's the implementation which doesn't really make sense IMHO: it
> always inverts the "enable" parameter (unless SPI_CS_HIGH is set), in
> keeping with the default active-low.

The default chip select is active low so an enebled chip select is low.

> So the docs are right, but "enable" doesn't match what it does. Chip select
> assertion would be a better API here. Is it worth fixing?

I suspect it's going to cause more breakage than it fixes with people
upstreaming things to change the sense of the paramter betwen kernel
versions - renaming the parameter to be clearer is probably about as
good as it gets.

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