On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:57:53PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 6:18 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It would really help to have an example of how a client device will use > > this, right now it's a bit hard to follow. Overall it feels like this > > should be better abstracted, right now there's lots of ifdefs throughout > > the code which make things unclear and also seem like they're going to > > be fragile long term since realistically very few systems will be using > > this. > Can't the ifdefs be avoided by implementing this as a new SPI controller? > I.e. the daisy chain driver will operate as a slave of the parent SPI > controller, > but will expose a new SPI bus to the daisy-chained slaves. Yes, that might work. I do worry about locking issues with having a SPI controller connected via SPI but we mostly only lock at the controller level so it's probably fine. Not sure how this would perform either.
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