[PATCH v5 04/12] spi: add ti-ssp spi master driver

[broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:45:54PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:34:09AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > You did also say you were going to write helpers to make this easier - I
> > do fear that we're going to end up with far too much boiler plate code
> > in machine drivers if we have to open code this.  I guess device tree is
> > going to need the helpers anyway :)

> Yup, and I will, but as can be seen the boilerplate required is
> actually pretty minimal, and I'd like to have a couple of platforms to
> work with before actually settling on what the helpers need to look
> like.

Yeah, but I do have a bit of nervousness about the scalability of open
coding and the possibility that we'll come up with a better approach so
I'd be a bit more comfortable if we didn't have code in random board
files as they're always the hardest thing to update.