[PATCH 06/10] drm/tinydrm: Move tinydrm_spi_transfer()

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Wed Jul 17 13:15:33 UTC 2019


Hi Noralf.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:58:13PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> This is only used by mipi-dbi drivers so move it there.
> 
> The reason this isn't moved to the SPI subsystem is that it will in a
> later patch pass a dummy rx buffer for SPI controllers that need this.
> Low memory boards (64MB) can run into a problem allocating such a "large"
> contiguous buffer on every transfer after a long up time.
> This leaves a very specific use case, so we'll keep the function here.
> mipi-dbi will first go through a refactoring though, before this will
> be done.
> 
> Remove SPI todo entry now that we're done with the tinydrm.ko SPI code.
> 
> Additionally move the mipi_dbi_spi_init() declaration to the other SPI
> functions.
> 
> Cc: David Lechner <david at lechnology.com>
> Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org>
With the few nitpics considered:
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>


> diff --git a/include/drm/tinydrm/mipi-dbi.h b/include/drm/tinydrm/mipi-dbi.h
> index 51fc667beef7..576e9a7349ab 100644
> --- a/include/drm/tinydrm/mipi-dbi.h
> +++ b/include/drm/tinydrm/mipi-dbi.h
> @@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ static inline struct mipi_dbi *drm_to_mipi_dbi(struct drm_device *drm)
>  	return container_of(drm, struct mipi_dbi, drm);
>  }
>  
> -int mipi_dbi_spi_init(struct spi_device *spi, struct mipi_dbi *mipi,
> -		      struct gpio_desc *dc);
Moving this prototype looks like it belongs in another patch?

	Sam


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