spidev supports more communications modes

The spidev driver doesn't currently expose all SPI communications modes to
userspace.  This passes them all through to the driver.

Two of them are potentially troublesome, in the sense that they could cause
hardware conflicts on shared busses.  It might be appropriate to add some
privilege checks for for those modes.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
index 38b60ad0eda0..630f781aeb19 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
@@ -55,9 +55,16 @@
 static unsigned long	minors[N_SPI_MINORS / BITS_PER_LONG];
 
 
-/* Bit masks for spi_device.mode management */
-#define SPI_MODE_MASK			(SPI_CPHA | SPI_CPOL)
-
+/* Bit masks for spi_device.mode management.  Note that incorrect
+ * settings for CS_HIGH and 3WIRE can cause *lots* of trouble for other
+ * devices on a shared bus:  CS_HIGH, because this device will be
+ * active when it shouldn't be;  3WIRE, because when active it won't
+ * behave as it should.
+ *
+ * REVISIT should changing those two modes be privileged?
+ */
+#define SPI_MODE_MASK		(SPI_CPHA | SPI_CPOL | SPI_CS_HIGH \
+				| SPI_LSB_FIRST | SPI_3WIRE | SPI_LOOP)
 
 struct spidev_data {
 	struct device		dev;