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SubjectRe: [RFC] SPI core -- revisited
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?
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>
>
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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