spi: Provide core support for full duplex devices
authorMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:17:03 +0000 (20:17 +0000)
committerSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Fri, 5 Dec 2014 00:21:37 +0000 (09:21 +0900)
commit634ce8f32c7bf26271620a59b9c525df3bcceadd
treeb4946c8e5e80f7f7b0c8b94923756a4730e99eee
parentc04b575307ef8e55fdaab8a7cd8d492d7881e1ea
spi: Provide core support for full duplex devices

It is fairly common for SPI devices to require that one or both transfer
directions is always active. Currently drivers open code this in various
ways with varying degrees of efficiency. Start factoring this out by
providing flags SPI_MASTER_MUST_TX and SPI_MASTER_MUST_RX. These will cause
the core to provide buffers for the requested direction if none are
specified in the underlying transfer.

Currently this is fairly inefficient since we actually allocate a data
buffer which may get large, support for mapping transfers using a
scatterlist will allow us to avoid this for DMA based transfers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
(cherry picked from commit 3a2eba9bd0a6447dfbc01635e4cd0689f5f2bdad)
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
drivers/spi/spi.c
include/linux/spi/spi.h