From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:48:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v5 04/12] spi: add ti-ssp spi master driver In-Reply-To: <20101116204554.GB5016@angua.secretlab.ca> References: <1289848334-8695-1-git-send-email-cyril@ti.com> <1289848334-8695-5-git-send-email-cyril@ti.com> <20101116072225.GF4074@angua.secretlab.ca> <20101116113409.GH3338@sirena.org.uk> <20101116204554.GB5016@angua.secretlab.ca> Message-ID: <20101116224846.GA24623@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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.