Unverified Commit c41d62b0 authored by Martin Sperl's avatar Martin Sperl Committed by Mark Brown
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spi: bcm2835: added comment about different bus behaviour of DMA mode



The DMA mode behaves slightly different than polling or interrupt driven
mode, so just document the fact

Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Sperl <kernel@martin.sperl.org>

Changelog:
  V1 -> V2: applied feedback by Stefan Wahren
            new in V2
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
parent 7f1922eb
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@@ -800,7 +800,10 @@ static int bcm2835_spi_transfer_one(struct spi_master *master,
	if (tfr->len < spi_used_hz / HZ_PER_BYTE)
		return bcm2835_spi_transfer_one_poll(master, spi, tfr, cs);

	/* run in dma mode if conditions are right */
	/* run in dma mode if conditions are right
	 * Note that unlike poll or interrupt mode DMA mode does not have
	 * this 1 idle clock cycle pattern but runs the spi clock without gaps
	 */
	if (master->can_dma && bcm2835_spi_can_dma(master, spi, tfr))
		return bcm2835_spi_transfer_one_dma(master, spi, tfr, cs);