Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] mfd: cros ec: spi: Don't send first message too soon

[Benson Leung]

Hi Jon,

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 02:43:27PM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
> On the Tegra124 Nyan-Big chromebook the very first SPI message sent to
> the EC is failing.
> 
> The Tegra SPI driver configures the SPI chip-selects to be active-high
> by default (and always has for many years). The EC SPI requires an
> active-low chip-select and so the Tegra chip-select is reconfigured to
> be active-low when the EC SPI driver calls spi_setup(). The problem is
> that if the first SPI message to the EC is sent too soon after
> reconfiguring the SPI chip-select, it fails.
> 
> The EC SPI driver prevents back-to-back SPI messages being sent too
> soon by keeping track of the time the last transfer was sent via the
> variable 'last_transfer_ns'. To prevent the very first transfer being
> sent too soon, initialise the 'last_transfer_ns' variable after calling
> spi_setup() and before sending the first SPI message.
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Benson Leung <bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Benson Leung
Staff Software Engineer
Chrome OS Kernel
Google Inc.
bleung@xxxxxxxxxx
Chromium OS Project
bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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