Re: i.MX SPI driver

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Andrea,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:46:23AM +0200, Andrea Paterniani wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
>
> Sorry for late replay!
> The current driver support DMA transfers.
> Surely for our design this feature is mandatory since we need to sustain  
> heavy SPI traffic.
> I suggest to not remove the driver even if it only supports iMX1 device  
> and not the entire family.
> Is it possible to have both current and new drivers?

I really wouldn't suggest that. The current driver does not work anymore
anyway since arch-imx is gone and the DMA API has changed on arch-mx1.
We have to do some work anyway, so I suggest to put the effort into DMA
support for the new driver. Since it's a bitbang driver it shouldn't be
hard.

Sascha

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