spi: Provide core support for full duplex devices
It is fairly common for SPI devices to require that one or both transfer directions is always active. Currently drivers open code this in various ways with varying degrees of efficiency. Start factoring this out by providing flags SPI_MASTER_MUST_TX and SPI_MASTER_MUST_RX. These will cause the core to provide buffers for the requested direction if none are specified in the underlying transfer. Currently this is fairly inefficient since we actually allocate a data buffer which may get large, support for mapping transfers using a scatterlist will allow us to avoid this for DMA based transfers. Signed-off-by:Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> (cherry picked from commit 3a2eba9b) (cherry picked from commit d88018dac8450a46cf68d5bd9711bf71cc751e8d)
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