From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: dmitry pervushin <dpervushin@ru.mvista.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: [lm-sensors] Re: [RFC] SPI core
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:42:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050602045145.GA7838@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050602040655.GE4906@jupiter.solarsys.private>
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:06:55AM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [2005-05-31 16:32:15 -0700]:
> > This code is _very_ close to just a copy of the i2c core code. Why
> > duplicate it and not work with the i2c people instead?
>
> It was discussed briefly on the lm-sensors mailing list [1]. I didn't
> reply at the time, but I do agree that SPI and I2C/SMBus are different
> enough to warrant independent subsystems.
Independant is fine. But direct copies, including making the same
mistakes (i2c dev interface, i2c driver model mess) isn't :)
thanks,
greg k-h
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: dmitry pervushin <dpervushin@ru.mvista.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SPI core
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:51:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050602045145.GA7838@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050602040655.GE4906@jupiter.solarsys.private>
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:06:55AM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [2005-05-31 16:32:15 -0700]:
> > This code is _very_ close to just a copy of the i2c core code. Why
> > duplicate it and not work with the i2c people instead?
>
> It was discussed briefly on the lm-sensors mailing list [1]. I didn't
> reply at the time, but I do agree that SPI and I2C/SMBus are different
> enough to warrant independent subsystems.
Independant is fine. But direct copies, including making the same
mistakes (i2c dev interface, i2c driver model mess) isn't :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-02 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-31 16:09 [RFC] SPI core dmitry pervushin
2005-05-31 18:33 ` randy_dunlap
2005-05-31 20:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-05-31 21:41 ` NZG
2005-05-31 23:20 ` Greg KH
2005-05-31 23:32 ` Greg KH
2005-06-01 11:43 ` [lm-sensors] " Greg KH
2005-06-02 4:06 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2005-06-02 6:08 ` [lm-sensors] " Mark M. Hoffman
2005-06-02 4:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-02 6:42 ` Greg KH
2005-06-02 13:02 ` Rui Sousa
2005-06-02 15:04 ` [lm-sensors] " Rui Sousa
2005-06-09 7:15 ` Greg KH
2005-06-09 9:28 ` [lm-sensors] " Greg KH
2005-06-09 10:39 ` Hinko Kocevar
2005-06-09 12:40 ` [lm-sensors] " Hinko Kocevar
2005-06-09 15:41 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-09 17:48 ` [lm-sensors] " Lee Revell
2005-06-02 10:09 ` dmitry pervushin
2005-06-02 12:13 ` [lm-sensors] " dmitry pervushin
2005-06-09 12:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-06-09 16:19 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-06-09 17:41 ` Pekka Enberg
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