On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:31:30PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote: > After increasing the tolerance for the timeout to 200ms I haven't seen > these SPI transfer time outs any more. > The Lantiq SPI driver in use here has an extra work queue in between, > which gets triggered when the controller send the last word and the > hardware FIFOs used for reading and writing are only 8 words long. This is pretty much just for that driver, like the commit message says it's weirdly written due to poorly thought through hardware so has noticably higher overhead than normal drivers. It shouldn't do any harm in stable since people probably shouldn't be running into errors.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature