This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
spi: dw: Remove misleading comment for Mount Evans SoC
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
spi-dw-remove-misleading-comment-for-mount-evans-soc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5b6d0b91f84cff3f28724076f93f6f9e2ef8d775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abe Kohandel <abe.kohandel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 16:18:44 -0700
Subject: spi: dw: Remove misleading comment for Mount Evans SoC
From: Abe Kohandel <abe.kohandel@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 5b6d0b91f84cff3f28724076f93f6f9e2ef8d775 upstream.
Remove a misleading comment about the DMA operations of the Intel Mount
Evans SoC's SPI Controller as requested by Serge.
Signed-off-by: Abe Kohandel <abe.kohandel@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/20230606191333.247ucbf7h3tlooxf@mobilestation/
Fixes: 0760d5d0e9f0 ("spi: dw: Add compatible for Intel Mount Evans SoC")
Reviewed-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606231844.726272-1-abe.kohandel@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-dw-mmio.c | 9 +--------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-mmio.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-mmio.c
@@ -223,14 +223,7 @@ static int dw_spi_intel_init(struct plat
}
/*
- * The Intel Mount Evans SoC's Integrated Management Complex uses the
- * SPI controller for access to a NOR SPI FLASH. However, the SoC doesn't
- * provide a mechanism to override the native chip select signal.
- *
- * This driver doesn't use DMA for memory operations when a chip select
- * override is not provided due to the native chip select timing behavior.
- * As a result no DMA configuration is done for the controller and this
- * configuration is not tested.
+ * DMA-based mem ops are not configured for this device and are not tested.
*/
static int dw_spi_mountevans_imc_init(struct platform_device *pdev,
struct dw_spi_mmio *dwsmmio)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from abe.kohandel@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/spi-dw-remove-misleading-comment-for-mount-evans-soc.patch
queue-6.1/spi-dw-add-compatible-for-intel-mount-evans-soc.patch
