Re: [PATCH 1/1] spi: intel: Remove DANGEROUS tag from pci driver

From: Michael Walle
Date: Tue Feb 07 2023 - 08:53:05 EST


> Modern CPUs exposes this controller as PCI device that only uses
> hardware sequencing capabilities which is safer than software
> sequencing.
> Leave the platform driver as *DANGEROUS* and update help text since
> most of these controllers are using software sequencing.

Out of curiosity, what is hardware sequencing? Maybe this should
be explained a bit more in the Kconfig help text. Looks like the
dangerous was there because you can update the bios and that
could eventually lead to a bricked mainboard. So hardware
sequencing helps there? how?

-michael