From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:16:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729170345.GA26787@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the
> driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device
> tables are for.
To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning
and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ... though I'd tend to
agree that most SPI flash chips are kind of small (so
they're mostly just one smallish partition).
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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:16:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729170345.GA26787@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the
> driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device
> tables are for.
To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning
and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ... though I'd tend to
agree that most SPI flash chips are kind of small (so
they're mostly just one smallish partition).
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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:16:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729170345.GA26787@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the
> driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device
> tables are for.
To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning
and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ... though I'd tend to
agree that most SPI flash chips are kind of small (so
they're mostly just one smallish partition).
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:16:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729170345.GA26787@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the
> driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device
> tables are for.
To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning
and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ... though I'd tend to
agree that most SPI flash chips are kind of small (so
they're mostly just one smallish partition).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-05 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-29 17:03 [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:03 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:03 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:03 ` [lm-sensors] " Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:04 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:04 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:04 ` [lm-sensors] " Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 21:44 ` Ben Dooks
2009-07-29 21:44 ` Ben Dooks
2009-07-29 21:44 ` Ben Dooks
2009-07-29 21:44 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table Ben Dooks
2009-07-29 22:32 ` [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 22:32 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 22:32 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 22:32 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 22:40 ` [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 22:40 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 22:40 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 22:40 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-30 2:12 ` [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-30 2:12 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-30 2:12 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-30 2:12 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-04 2:21 ` [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching David Brownell
2009-08-04 2:21 ` David Brownell
2009-08-04 2:21 ` David Brownell
2009-08-04 2:21 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table David Brownell
2009-08-05 1:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-05 1:06 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-05 1:06 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-05 1:06 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] mtd: m25p80: Convert to device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2/7] mtd: m25p80: Convert to device table Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] of: Remove "stm,m25p40" alias Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [lm-sensors] " Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] spi: Prefix modalias with "spi:" Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [lm-sensors] " Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-12 4:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-12 4:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-12 4:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-12 4:12 ` [lm-sensors] " Mike Frysinger
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] spi: Merge probe and probe_id callbacks Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [lm-sensors] " Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] hwmon: adxx: Convert to device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 6/7] hwmon: adxx: Convert to device table Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] hwmon: lm70: Convert to device table matching Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-07-29 17:05 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH 7/7] hwmon: lm70: Convert to device table Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-04 2:16 ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-08-04 2:16 ` [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem David Brownell
2009-08-04 2:16 ` David Brownell
2009-08-04 2:16 ` [lm-sensors] " David Brownell
2009-08-05 0:54 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-05 0:54 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-05 0:54 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-08-05 0:54 ` [lm-sensors] " Anton Vorontsov
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