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From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 04:54:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090805005404.GA14451@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:16:02PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 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 ...

With OF we do partitioning and labling via drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.

Though, so far there is no support for OF partitions in the m25p80
driver. I think we'd better put the OF partitions probing into
parse_mtd_partitions(), and avoid calling of_mtd_parse_partitons()
directly...

Thanks,

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2

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From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:54:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090805005404.GA14451@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:16:02PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 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 ...

With OF we do partitioning and labling via drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.

Though, so far there is no support for OF partitions in the m25p80
driver. I think we'd better put the OF partitions probing into
parse_mtd_partitions(), and avoid calling of_mtd_parse_partitons()
directly...

Thanks,

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2

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From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 04:54:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090805005404.GA14451@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:16:02PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 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 ...

With OF we do partitioning and labling via drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.

Though, so far there is no support for OF partitions in the m25p80
driver. I think we'd better put the OF partitions probing into
parse_mtd_partitions(), and avoid calling of_mtd_parse_partitons()
directly...

Thanks,

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 04:54:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090805005404.GA14451@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:16:02PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 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 ...

With OF we do partitioning and labling via drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.

Though, so far there is no support for OF partitions in the m25p80
driver. I think we'd better put the OF partitions probing into
parse_mtd_partitions(), and avoid calling of_mtd_parse_partitons()
directly...

Thanks,

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05  0:54 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 ` [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem David Brownell
2009-08-04  2:16   ` 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 [this message]
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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