Re: [PATCH] spi: set bits_per_word based on controller's bits_per_word_mask

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 01:07:57PM +0200, Alvaro Gamez Machado wrote:
> By leaving this value unset, a default value of 8 was being set later on.
> 
> If it happens that the SPI master driver doesn't support this value of 8,
> there will be an initial inconsistency between the SPI master and the device
> itself. This isn't a problem for most devices because kernel drivers

This will break things, client devices are working on the basis that the
default transfer width is 8 bits.  As I've repeatedly said if we have
different parts of the system with different ideas about the word size
we're going to end up with data corruption.  Please take this feedback
on board.

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