This only works when the native chipselect is in use. On a board with a Ti ADS7950 8 channel ADC. This patch reduces the time to read out all channels once from 280 us to 20 us. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c index e5ba99d87eb3..ff6051fe25f6 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c @@ -1209,6 +1209,7 @@ static int spi_imx_setupxfer(struct spi_device *spi, * dynamic_burst in that case. */ if (spi_imx->devtype_data->dynamic_burst && !spi_imx->slave_mode && + !(spi->mode & SPI_CS_WORD) && (spi_imx->bits_per_word == 8 || spi_imx->bits_per_word == 16 || spi_imx->bits_per_word == 32)) { @@ -1640,6 +1641,15 @@ static int spi_imx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) is_imx53_ecspi(spi_imx)) spi_imx->bitbang.master->mode_bits |= SPI_LOOP | SPI_READY; + if (is_imx51_ecspi(spi_imx) && + device_property_read_u32(&pdev->dev, "cs-gpios", NULL)) + /* + * When using HW-CS implementing SPI_CS_WORD can be done by just + * setting the burst length to the word size. This is + * considerably faster than manually controlling the CS. + */ + spi_imx->bitbang.master->mode_bits |= SPI_CS_WORD; + spi_imx->spi_drctl = spi_drctl; init_completion(&spi_imx->xfer_done); -- 2.30.2