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From: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>
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Subject: acceptable chip driver limitations
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Hi!

Is it allright if my chip driver read/write's only accept 32-bit
to/from/len's?

I.e. if I return with -EINVAL if somebody tries to read/write a single byte
or tries to read from a non-dword boundary, is that acceptable or should the
driver cater for word/byte read/writes as well?

If this is the case, it complicates things a lot because for instance in my
case the flash device can only handle 32-bit read/write's and smaller
accesses will have to be emulated.

--=20

Regards
 Abraham

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