Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] spi: spi-axi-spi-engine: Add support for MOSI idle configuration

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:40:23 -0300
Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/07, Nuno Sá wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 18:31 -0300, Marcelo Schmitt wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> >   
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > When is a driver version check needed?
> > > Yes, older versions of SPI-Engine won't support this, but the patch set should
> > > cause no regression. Even if loading the current ad4000 driver with
> > > older SPI-Engine HDL and driver, the ADC driver would get a warn (or error?)
> > > and do what's possible without MOSI idle feature (probably only be able to do
> > > reg access) or fail probing.
> > >   
> > 
> > Maybe I'm missing something but with the patchset we unconditionally set
> > SPI_MOSI_IDLE_HIGH. So if we load an hdl which does not support it things will
> > apparently be ok but it won't actually work, right? If I'm right we should have  
> Yes, that's correct.
> 
> > a bit in a RO config_register telling us that the feature is being supported or
> > not. That way we only set the mode bit if we do support it...  
> 
> Ok, understood. Will do it for v4.
If you don't have such a mode bit, you will need to add a property to the
dt-binding. Or a suitable compatible.

Nasty, so fingers crossed you do have a capability flag to check!

Jonathan

> 
> Thanks,
> Marcelo
> 
> > 
> > - Nuno Sá
> > 
> >