Re: [PATCH] drivers: iio: pressure: Add SPI support for BMP38x and BMP390

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Fri Feb 16 2024 - 06:08:53 EST


On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:03:27 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 05:43:32PM +0100, Vasileios Amoiridis wrote:
> > According to the datasheet of BMP38x and BMP390 devices, in SPI
> > operation, the first byte that returns after a read operation is
> > garbage and it needs to be dropped and return the rest of the
> > bytes.
>
> Thank you for the patch, my comments below.
>
> ...
>
> > +static int bmp380_regmap_spi_read(void *context, const void *reg,
> > + size_t reg_size, void *val, size_t val_size)
> > +{
> > + struct spi_device *spi = to_spi_device(context);
> > + u8 ret[BMP380_SPI_MAX_REG_COUNT_READ + 1];
> > + ssize_t status;
> > + u8 buf;
>
> AFAIU this buffer is not DMA-capable.

Doesn't matter in this case as spi_write_then_read() bounces anyway so you don't need
to provide it with a dma safe buffer. It's in the docs, so we can rely
on this not changing.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/spi/spi.c#L4391