Some Clarification on Confusing BCM2835 SPI Master Documentation

I have been adding support for peripheral types to my Raspberry Pi C++ peripherals library[1] and as a result have been reading the BCM2835 ARM Peripherals data sheet document[2] rather closely as well as the document’s errata page on eLinux[3]. I, like others, have been bumping into documentation errors – and even added one to the eLinux list errata. When I came to implement support for the Serial Peripheral Interface master (a.