Re: [PATCH/RFC] simple SPI controller on PXA2xx SSP port, refresh

[Stephen Street <stephen@streetfiresound.com>]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:15 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> Stephen persuaded me to add controller_data too, which is stored in
> "struct spi_device".  His PXA SPI controller driver uses that for a
> structure holding what I'd call DMA tuning information, plus a function
> that tweaks the GPIO used for a chipselect.  Treat it as readonly.
> 
> Controller drivers can have two different kinds of state in each
> spi_device:  static, and dynamic/runtime.  The names used for them
> are IMO very confusing (platform_data and controller_data) since
> they don't mean the same as those names do in board_info.  I'd take
> a patch to provide better names for those two.  :)

I agree, the names are bad...  How about modifying struct spi_board_info
to

struct spi_board_info {
...

	void *slave_data;
	void *master_data; 
...
};

-Stephen