Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Frysinger <> | Date | Sat, 21 May 2011 17:54:17 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: add arch/tile/drivers/ directory with SROM driver |
| |
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2011 09:46:55 Eric Biederman wrote: >> What is wrong with an mtd driver? >> >> Looking a bit back into the conversation it appears clear that you are >> talking about something that resembles NOR flash with multiple sectors, >> etc. >> >> eeproms have random byte access and are typically 256 bytes. You devices >> doesn't sound anything like an eeprom. > > MTD implies that you have low-level access to the NOR flash registers, > which this one doesn't. It's certainly not the right Linux interface > for a high-level flash device, and there is no precedent for this at > all in Linux. > > We do have precedent for multiple interfaces that have the same > purpose as this one: > > drivers/misc/eeprom/* > drivers/char/ps3flash.c > drivers/char/nwflash.c > drivers/char/bfin-otp.c
there is a new otp framework in the works that this driver would move to. but that wouldnt matter to the driver being proposed for the tile arch i dont think. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |