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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: SPI devices and OF
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:03:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704041903.46629.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4850DC60-A560-4A38-8416-ADA776B69509@kernel.crashing.org>

On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Kumar Gala wrote:
> I don't think this is a good idea for SPI devices. =A0The effort vs =A0
> reward isn't worth it. =A0The simple fact that the 'chip select' =A0
> mechanism ends up being board specific is too much of a pain to =A0
> figure out how to deal with in the device tree. =A0I think its ok if we =
=A0
> put information about the controller in the tree, but trying to do =A0
> the devices as well at this point doesn't seem like its much of a win.
>=20

I'm not following your argumentation. If the chip select is board specific,
isn't the device tree for that board _exactly_ the place where that
information should be? Where else would you get it from?

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 11:09 SPI devices and OF Sascha Hauer
2007-04-04 11:51 ` Vitaly Wool
2007-04-04 16:34   ` Kumar Gala
2007-04-04 17:03     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-04-04 17:12       ` Kumar Gala
2007-04-05  7:32         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-05 15:00           ` Milton Miller
2007-04-05  8:33     ` Sascha Hauer
2007-04-04 15:57 ` Milton Miller
2007-04-05  8:50   ` Sascha Hauer
2007-04-05 14:44     ` Milton Miller
2007-04-05 19:11       ` Sascha Hauer
2007-04-05 19:52         ` Arnd Bergmann

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