cc1200 - safe to poll MISO level via the status byte?

Hello,

The cc1200 requires the cpu wait until the MISO goes low after dropping CS before talking with the chip. I'm looking into writing a linux device driver where the driver code may not have direct access to the SPI bus lines. 

To get around this - would it be safe to simply "poll" the cc1200 by sending a SNOP to get the status byte and keep polling until CHIP_RDYn (section 3.1.2) is set to zero/low?

Thanks,

-- Michael