Re: [MeeGo-Dev][PATCH] Topcliff: Update PCH_SPI driver to 2.6.35

["Tomoya MORINAGA" <morinaga526@dsn.okisemi.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Linus Walleij" <linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com>
Cc: "Masayuki Ohtake" <masa-korg@dsn.okisemi.com>; <meego-dev@meego.com>;
"LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "David Brownell"
<dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>; <qi.wang@intel.com>;
<yong.y.wang@intel.com>; <andrew.chih.howe.khor@intel.com>;
<arjan@linux.intel.com>; <gregkh@suse.de>; "Tomoya MORINAGA"
<morinaga526@dsn.okisemi.com>; "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>;
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-Dev][PATCH] Topcliff: Update PCH_SPI driver to 2.6.35


> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:58:38PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > 2010/9/3 Masayuki Ohtake <masa-korg@dsn.okisemi.com>:
> >
> > > Each instance of our SPI device has the same vendor ID and device ID.
> > > Thus, I think it is impossible to be called probe() for each instance.
> >
> > Looking at you latest patch it appears you could :-)
> > That solves the problem pretty nicely.
>
> Actually, it doesn't look like he did.  It looks to me that the
> ability to support multiple spi bus instances on a single PCI device
> has simply been removed.  I don't know if that is because it simply
> isn't needed yet, or if it is because Ohtake-san doesn't quite
> understand what were suggesting.

We wanted you to accept multi-instance the SPI patch.
But seeing maintainer's comments, I felt it is difficult to be accepted.
Thus, I have deleted whole of multi-instance code.

>
> Regardless it doesn't matter.  When or if the driver does need to be
> modified to support multiple instances, it is a relatively straight
> forward matter to refactor the current code into a platform_driver,
> and create a new pci_driver that simply registers the matching
> platform_device for each spi bus instance supported by the device.
>
> g.
>