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From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@mm-sol.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de>,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: core: Validate lenght of the transfers in message
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:16:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1392365765.12787.89.camel@iivanov-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140214002627.GG28112@sirena.org.uk>

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 00:26 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:27:57PM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 16:46 +0200, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > > SPI transfer lenght should be a power-of-two multiple
> > > of eight bits.
> 
> > Are you suggesting that an SPI transfer cannot consist of e.g.
> > three bytes?  This would be surprising, and certainly would be
> > rather wrong an assumption.  Am I missing/misunderstanding
> > something?
> 
> The check is supposed to be verifying that the transfer is a whole
> number of the current SPI word size as I understand it (not actually
> looked at the change yet but that's where it came from, factored out of
> a driver).

Yes. Comment is not correct. Is this better?

"SPI transfer length should be multiple of SPI word size, where SPI
word size should be power-of-two multiple"

Regards,
Ivan


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From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov-NEYub+7Iv8PQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Gerhard Sittig <gsi-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-spi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: core: Validate lenght of the transfers in message
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:16:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1392365765.12787.89.camel@iivanov-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140214002627.GG28112-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 00:26 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:27:57PM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 16:46 +0200, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > > SPI transfer lenght should be a power-of-two multiple
> > > of eight bits.
> 
> > Are you suggesting that an SPI transfer cannot consist of e.g.
> > three bytes?  This would be surprising, and certainly would be
> > rather wrong an assumption.  Am I missing/misunderstanding
> > something?
> 
> The check is supposed to be verifying that the transfer is a whole
> number of the current SPI word size as I understand it (not actually
> looked at the change yet but that's where it came from, factored out of
> a driver).

Yes. Comment is not correct. Is this better?

"SPI transfer length should be multiple of SPI word size, where SPI
word size should be power-of-two multiple"

Regards,
Ivan

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13 14:46 [PATCH] spi: core: Validate lenght of the transfers in message Ivan T. Ivanov
2014-02-13 14:46 ` Ivan T. Ivanov
2014-02-13 21:27 ` Gerhard Sittig
2014-02-13 21:27   ` Gerhard Sittig
2014-02-14  0:26   ` Mark Brown
2014-02-14  0:26     ` Mark Brown
2014-02-14  8:16     ` Ivan T. Ivanov [this message]
2014-02-14  8:16       ` Ivan T. Ivanov
2014-02-14 15:05       ` Mark Brown
2014-02-14 15:05         ` Mark Brown
2014-02-14 15:06 ` Mark Brown

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