Re: [RFC 04/25] spi: gpio: Implement LSB First bitbang support

[Andreas Färber <afaerber@xxxxxxx>]

Am 12.12.19 um 18:19 schrieb Mark Brown:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 04:14:59PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 12.12.19 um 09:40 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:41 AM Andreas Färber <afaerber@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Add support for slave DT property spi-lsb-first, i.e., SPI_LSB_FIRST mode.
> 
>>>> Duplicate the inline helpers bitbang_txrx_be_cpha{0,1} as LE versions.
>>>> Make checkpatch.pl happy by changing "unsigned" to "unsigned int".
> 
> Separate patch for this?

For the checkpatch cleanup? Or helpers preparation vs. spi-gpio.c usage?

>> So from that angle I don't see a better way than either duplicating the
>> functions or using some macro magic to #include the header twice. If we
>> wanted to go down that path, we could probably de-duplicate the existing
>> two functions, too, but I was trying to err on the cautious side, since
>> I don't have setups to test all four code paths myself (and a ton of
>> more relevant but less fun patches to flush out ;)).
> 
> Yeah, I don't think there's any great options here with the potential
> performance issues - probably the nicest thing would be to autogenerate
> lots of variants but I think that's far more trouble than it's worth.

Maybe add another code comment to revisit that idea later then?

Thanks,
Andreas

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