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[2/2] spi: spidev: document SPI_IOC_WR_DEFAULT_MAX_SPEED_HZ

Message ID 20170509122401.2561-3-kirkseraph@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Seraphime Kirkovski May 9, 2017, 12:24 p.m. UTC
This adds documentation of the new spidev ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Seraphime Kirkovski (Haapie) <kirkseraph@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/spi/spidev | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Comments

Mark Brown May 14, 2017, 9:27 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 02:24:01PM +0200, Seraphime Kirkovski wrote:
> This adds documentation of the new spidev ioctl.

This should have been part of the first path adding the new ioctl() :(
Seraphime Kirkovski May 15, 2017, 8:17 a.m. UTC | #2
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 06:27:43PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 02:24:01PM +0200, Seraphime Kirkovski wrote:
> > This adds documentation of the new spidev ioctl.
> 
> This should have been part of the first path adding the new ioctl() :(

Will change.
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diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spidev b/Documentation/spi/spidev
index 3d14035b1766..c67a00594dce 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spidev
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spidev
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@  settings for data transfer parameters:
 	speed, in Hz.  The controller can't necessarily assign that specific
 	clock speed.
 
+    SPI_IOC_WR_DEFAULT_MAX_SPEED_HZ ... pass a pointer to a u32 which will
+	assign the maximum speed in Hz directly to the underlying device.
+	The controller can't necessarily assign that clock speed.
+	Any subsequent open() to the same /dev/spidevB.D will be configured
+	by default to use the maximum speed assigned by the last successful
+	call to SPI_IOC_WR_DEFAULT_MAX_SPEED_HZ.
+
 NOTES:
 
     - At this time there is no async I/O support; everything is purely