The MPC83xx SPI controller clock divider can divide the system clock by not
more then 1024. The spi_mpc83xx driver does not check this and silently
writes garbage to the SPI controller registers when asked to run at lower
frequencies. I've tried to run the SPI on a 266MHz MPC8349E with 100kHz
for debugging a bus problem and suddenly was confronted with a 2nd problem
to debug.. ;-)
The patch adds an additional check which avoids writing garbage to the SPI
controller registers and warn the user about it. This might help others to
avoid simmilar problems.
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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