-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brown [mailto:broonie at kernel.org] 
Sent: 2013?7?29? 2:41
To: Sascha Hauer
Cc: Fu Chao-B44548; linux-spi at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; grant.likely at linaro.org; Wang Huan-B18965; shawn.guo at linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] spi:Add Freescale DSPI driver for Vybrid VF610 platform

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 09:21:30AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:32:23PM +0800, Chao Fu wrote:

Sascha, please delete unneeded context from your mails - it makes it much easier to find the new text.

quoted

+	tx_word = is_word_transfer(dspi);
+	/* If we are in word mode, but only have a single byte to transfer
+	 * then switch to byte mode temporarily.  Will switch back at the
+	 * end of the transfer. */

Not sure if I understand this, but if you are in word mode then I 
would consider it a bug when there's only one byte to transfer.

Yes, this is a definite bug - especially since SPI in word mode has a fixed word order on the bus.  The driver should never put the hardware into a word size other than that explicitly requested by the client and then it should insist on getting exact multiples of that word size.
[Chao Fu] This function(is_word_transfer(dspi)) can  judge a transfer is byte mode or double byte mode from register.
But I think this driver can transfer one byte.
1.Only one byte in a message in double byte mode:
	if (tx_word && (dspi->len == 1)) {
		dspi->dataflags |= TRAN_STATE_WORD_ODD_NUM;
		set_8bit_transfer_mode(dspi);
		tx_word = 0;
	}
The driver will switch byte mode .
2.Transferring in double byte mode left a byte:
		if (tx_word) {
			if (dspi->len == 1)
				break;
We will break from this loop, transfer in next loop.

Sorry! This function name (is_word_transfer) may be not very clear. I will rename it.

quoted

+static int dspi_prepare_transfer_hw(struct spi_master *master) {
+	struct fsl_dspi *dspi = spi_master_get_devdata(master);
+
+	pm_runtime_get_sync(&dspi->pdev->dev);
+
+	return 0;
+}

I just posted a patch series which would allow you to have the core do this for you, please rebase on top of that.