The patch titled spi: spidev_test gives error upon 1-byte transfer has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is spi-spidev_test-gives-error-upon-1-byte-transfer.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: spi: spidev_test gives error upon 1-byte transfer From: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@xxxxxxxx> The sample application spidev_test.c is using SPI_IOC_MESSAGE ioctl to do an SPI transfer. This ioctl returns the number of bytes successfully transmitted or a negative error code upon erroneous completion. The application however is returning an error if the result of the ioclt if the return value is 1. This makes the application to fail upon 1-byte length transfers. Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@xxxxxxxx> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c~spi-spidev_test-gives-error-upon-1-byte-transfer Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c --- a/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c~spi-spidev_test-gives-error-upon-1-byte-transfer +++ a/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static void transfer(int fd) }; ret = ioctl(fd, SPI_IOC_MESSAGE(1), &tr); - if (ret == 1) + if (ret < 1) pabort("can't send spi message"); for (ret = 0; ret < ARRAY_SIZE(tx); ret++) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hector.palacios@xxxxxxxx are spi-spidev_test-gives-error-upon-1-byte-transfer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html