Re: [PATCH RFC v1] spi: realtek-rtl: Fix clearing some register bits

[Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Birger,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 10:20 AM Birger Koblitz <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> On 7/28/22 17:27, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> > Your patch actually addresses an issue which I have seen with RTL_SPI_SFCSR_CS.
> > Since you seem to have boards with these Realtek SoCs: could you
> > please clean up your patch and upstream it (splitting into smaller
> > patches if/where needed)? That would be a win-win: upstream gains
> > improved SPI support and I won't be confused the next time I look at
> > the spi-realtek-rtl driver.
>
> Thanks for suggesting this! I will send a patch-set later today along
> these lines, I first need to set up a linux dev environment as the
> development so far was within OpenWRT.
There's not a single right or wrong. The fewer patches a target has in
OpenWrt the easier it gets in my experience. The most simple approach
in my opinion is to make OpenWrt use an external kernel tree (using
CONFIG_EXTERNAL_KERNEL_TREE).


Best regards,
Martin