Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:56:44 -0400 | From | Jamey Hicks <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] SPI core -- revisited |
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Russell King wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:50:26AM -0400, Jamey Hicks wrote: > > >>dmitry pervushin wrote: >> >> >>>we finally decided to rework the SPI core and now it its ready for your comments.. >>>Here we have several boards equipped with SPI bus, and use this spi core with these boards; >>>Drivers for them are available by request (...and if community approve this patch) >>> >>> >>I'm glad to see that work is progressing on SPI core. I've worked on >>drivers on both ARM linux and Blackfin uclinux that use SPI and would >>prefer that they not be platform specific. >> >> > >I worry about SPI at the moment because I can't see how it's being used >from just this code. > >The worry I have is that it appears to contain an algorithm layer. Would >this be better as a library for drivers to use, or something like that? > > > That's a good point. I think the only algorithm that really gets shared is the bitbanging one, which could be a library, and otherwise it is controller specific and might as well be in the adapter.
Jamey
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